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sweep over

VERB
  1. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

How To Use sweep over In A Sentence

  • It comes in a wand like a mascara brush, which you sweep over your brows to give colour to the hairs rather than the skin.
  • The farm was beside Lake Eyrie and rain, along with bitter winds, would sweep over the vineyard.
  • Your proof will be forthcoming with the wind of change about to sweep over your planet.
  • When waves of despair which no language can express sweep over the suppliant, how few cling with unyielding faith to the promises of God.
  • Before slamming the heel of his palm into the front door he closes his eyes to imagine the silence that will sweep over his eagerly awaiting audience as he walks onto center stage.
  • Spock allowed it to sweep over and through him, to buffet and suffuse him with impatience, frustration, and a determination to kill. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
  • Some patients often require treatment with laser or freezing sweep over.
  • There is little air to sweep over the wings and make them hot.
  • Speaking of the swift, that page says "its drink the dew;" whereas it should be "it drinks on the wing;" for all the swallow kind sip their water as they sweep over the face of pools or rivers: like Virgil's bees, they drink flying; "_flumina summa libant_. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
  • Deep sienna and browns, both reddish and nearly black, sweep over the canvas, the forms, if not the hues, like those of a cloudscape.
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