Sentence examples for were sweeping over from inspiring English sources

'At one point that they were sweeping over the promenade.

The costumes (by Bettina J. Walter) are variable, sometimes contemporary, sometimes 18th-century, as if time were sweeping over these people like a tide.

Nicholas loved rural life, so much so that he quickly fell out of touch with his country and had little idea of the changes that were sweeping over it.

How can you tell a city and a team that they have to lose a pennant because of problems they don't know about happening thousands of miles away?" Summing it up years later, Roseboro said: "For millions of Americans the pennant race was a diversion from the problems that were sweeping over the country.

A series of storms is sweeping over Britain, and the resultant rain is flooding areas of the south-west and south-east.

It's a frightening look at the wave of opiate addiction that's sweeping over and submerging communities in the American heartland.

Fred Pearce cites a new and important study by Craig Leisher of The Nature Conservancy that analyzed more than 400 reports in order to identify key successes in the conservationist goal to not only save habitat, species and populations, but alleviate the deepening poverty that is sweeping over so many of the world's rural denizens, the last true stewards of indigenous biodiversity.

Now, the next wave of growth in biotechnology is sweeping over Boston.

A quiet change is sweeping over global health.

The 18th century is sweeping over Bristol's theatres.

The water had passed the fourth step and was sweeping over the porch.