The phrase 'swept like' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something moving quickly, often with a lot of force. For example, you could say "The wind swept like a hurricane through the town."
The resulting torrent of runoff swept like a deadly tidal wave through the city.
However, the German eruption swept like a sharp scythe around the right and rear of the Armies of the north.
And the recession, which swept like a scythe through journalism jobs in Alaska — as it did in many places — left "Alaska's News Source," as it calls itself, more pre-eminent than ever as competition faded.
But when the collapse of the housing market swept like a wave through this Northern Virginia county, taking his house, and his bank account, and many of his customers along with it, he lost his middle-class lifestyle.
But we do know that Obama swept like a conquering hero through Richmond, the former capital of the Confederacy, last week and that he leads in every recent Virginia poll.
When she reveals her back to him while posing, he discovers she has "a triangular pattern of dark hair that swept like a brushstroke across her right shoulder blade".
He got a broom and began to sweep like a demon, relatives leaping out of his way.
He has shepherded sheep around this flagpole, to the sound of church bells; he has filmed the city's itinerant workers queuing in its shadow, as it sweeps like a sundial through the long day.
Rotating on precision bearings devised by the artist, the arms were balanced so that slight breezes would cause them to sweep like giant scissor blades, tracing graceful arcs or circles against the sky.
Complaints should be directed to the bug experts who predicted that a biblical swarm of periodic cicadas, Brood X, would sweep like a curtain of white noise across the Middle Atlantic region in June.
Chart-like data can be converted to a sweep-like format.
