Sentence examples for were being swept from inspiring English sources

He was irrelevant while the Twins were being swept by the Yankees in the first round of the playoffs.

"When we were being swept by the water, many people were floating and raising their hands and yelling for help.

Everywhere you looked in the thirties, authoritarian leaders were being swept to power with the help of radio.

The waters were flooding the beach promenade in Chennai, she said, and people were being swept away; she begged her husband to escape.

The investigation also suggested that charges of abuse by guards were being swept under the rug and that psychiatric services for mentally disabled children were shockingly inadequate.

In the winter, the frozen river here creaks and moans as if lost souls were being swept along by the relentless current underneath the ice.

Outmoded hiring procedures are being swept away.

The case was being swept under the rug.

In this third age a whole way of life has been, and is being, swept away.

Now that the dictators are being swept away, Islamist parties are trying to fill the void.

Booksellers like my father are being swept out of the book trade.