VERB
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force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action
don't drag me into this business
They were swept up by the events -
take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
She embraced Catholicism
They adopted the Jewish faith
How To Use sweep up In A Sentence
- People like Momtaz Begum simply sweep up their waste and dump it into the barrel.
- Let's pile up the fallen leaves in the corner and sweep up the floor.
- The ejecta are still moving rapidly, however, and quickly sweep up surrounding matter to form a shell that slows down as mass gets accumulated, an action similar to that of a snowplow.
- Marse David had de grown mens go sweep up de cottonseed in de ginhouse on Sunday mornin ', and for three Sundays us went to school. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
- Each night she would sweep up to the club in her flashy car and take him home with her. EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOASTER: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings
- The sweep up to the front of the $300-a-night hotel is rich with wafts of untreated river water.
- Julia Fordham sings in a smoky contralto that can also sweep upward to grab those higher tones when needed.
- Pour away they discovery ocean and sweep up the wood.
- Regardless of how much I cannot stand that fraud, he could literally sweep up your shorty in front of you and drive off with you left crying in the rear-view wondering how.
- A few well aimed bites and the bag is shredded, the catnip is everywhere, and you have a wonderful mess to sweep up.
