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How To Use sweep away In A Sentence

• In turn, the gallery's window is fitted with giant windscreen wipers to sweep away a continuous downpour of "rain" inverted commas seem necessary to any description of Weber's wonderfully artificial sculptural conceits. This week's new exhibitions
• A huge campaign will attempt to sweep away litter and graffiti in a fresh war on crime which is expected to run for a year.
• Her broom helped sweep away the clam shells discarded by scavenging racoons and the carcasses of dead mice frozen during the winter.
• Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
• A rough, dry wind which should sweep away the miasmas of the swamp, the misty staleness of the _Lieder, Liedchen, Liedlein_, as numerous as drops of rain in which inexhaustibly the Germanic _Gemüt_ is poured forth: the countless things like _Sehnsucht_ (Desire), _Heimweh_ (Homesickness), _Aufschwung_ Jean-Christophe, Volume I
• As a child, he watched a river sweep away the wheat planted on the family farm in Indiana.
• Newspaper editorials spoke of the need to sweep away corrupt practices in local government.
• The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep away a cloud. Les Miserables
• We have got to sweep away the system that has failed and devise a totally new one - designed and directed towards achieving Olympic targets.
• The campaign for the democratic nominee will not end until the cleanup crew arrives to sweep away the confetti from the convention floor on it's last night. Pelosi prepared to 'step in' to end race