Sentence examples for were swept with from inspiring English sources

In the 17th century, members of the English upper class were swept with a craze for playing consort music for ensembles of various sizes of viola da gamba ("leg viols," held, cello-fashion, between the knees).

In the desorption cycles, the CNTs were swept with N2 (flowrate = 60 mL/min) at atmospheric pressure at temperature: 90, 100 and 110 °C.

I find beaches sweltering and boring unless they are swept with rain.

The cottage, too, was empty and had been swept with a broom, which he had left leaning against the wall.

Confronted with the prospect of homeless trash and limited space, the nation was swept with garbage guilt.

Given the exaggerated femininity of girls' fashion in Japan, you might imagine that the country is being swept with a wave of ironic, post-feminist Girl Power.

In recent weeks, the stock market in the United States has been swept with turmoil, swinging from gains to losses in increments of hundreds of points.

Levi records how, one day, the camp was swept with excitement at the news that there was to be a distribution of new shirts, because "a convoy of Hungarians... had arrived three days ago".

Water from an aquifer, as well as better conservation, has since kept the soil in place even during dry years though this month, the same land, bone-dry once again, has been swept with dangerous fires.

AT 7 31 last Sunday night, as the newer of the two Queens led the elder out of the harbor, the crowds on shore seemed to be swept with an almost tangible stirring of nostalgia.

Afterward, the sample was swept with He for 60 min.