Sentence examples for waste swept from inspiring English sources

With the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton, he had been to Man, W.Va., to interview survivors of a disaster in which 125 people had been killed and 4,000 people made homeless when a dam burst and a wall of black water containing coal waste swept down Buffalo Creek.

The cigars--poor imitations of the famous Churchills, which sell for around £14 apiece in London--were made in a Havana workshop using waste tobacco swept off the floor of one of the city's premier cigar factories.

At least 85 people remain missing in southern China a day after a mountain of construction waste and soil swept over dozens of buildings, in the latest disaster to hit a nation increasingly facing the consequences of its rapid industrialisation.

After clinching the Second Division championship with an emphatic display that swept aside lacklustre Oldham, Millwall wasted no time in revealing their ambition to push for a Premiership place.

Then white-nose syndrome, the fungal disease that has laid waste to bat populations all across the Northeast, swept through.

In his speech to the Tory party conference earlier this month, George Osborne took a dig at a range of "Labour nonsense" – examples of "waste and bureaucracy" that are to be vigorously swept away.

Terrified, the engineer jumps into the chemical plant's waste pound lock to escape Batman, and is swept through a pipe leading to the outside.

Thirty years ago, Liverpool became the first British city to suffer from a mass heroin epidemic that swept through the estates and laid them waste.

And back when women's skirts swept the ground, a pricey shoe was wasted effort.

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As I wrote at the time, he wasted months on analysis/paralysis and diplomatic dithering while Isis swept across Syria and Iraq before he finally intervened with air strikes.