Sentence examples for we are swept from inspiring English sources

Now we are swept up in the same passions that drove our ancestors to build the memorials our generation has chosen to ignore.

Whoosh – we are swept indoors like the pair of blow-ins we are, then, ah – the welcome smell of peat smoke.

We are swept on downstream, but to struggle back towards our self against the current is a painful movement; thus does the sea, when driven against itself, swirl back in confusion.

As we watch (and listen), we are swept away on a tide of changing social attitudes to race, gender and sexuality, the singularity of love splintered into kaleidoscopic reflections of desire and devotion.

Soon enough, in any case, we are swept up in the bittersweet story, which juxtaposes the mostly smooth romance between Carrie and Enoch with the turbulent relationship between Julie, a millworker with a touch of the poet in her soul, and Billy, the ne'er-do-well carnival barker whose sense of alienation unexpectedly sparks an echo in Julie's heart.

It is also full of a strange kind of gallows humour, as we are swept along by stories that are invented and presented entirely convincingly, only to be suddenly brought up short by a reminder that this has not been done innocently.

Last year was more of an embarrassing situation in that we were swept in the finals".

A giddy geography - we're swept from Apollo's Aegean to Cortez on his Pacific shore.

We're swept away with her on a wash of minimal synth music and trauma.

Freezing water poured into my waders as we were swept downriver.

We were swept to an awaiting boat, past Port, the marina's black cat and a couple of resident bats.