sweeps

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• Sophisticated, nuanced, melodious pop music, that sweeps you away.

• For humans, Shark Week is just a once-a-year sweeps event for the Discovery Channel.

• The camera sweeps over to a room filled with seemingly holographic monitors as two technicians scramble.

• The pulses are from a beam of light produced by the intense magnetic field, which sweeps across Earth as the neutron star rotates.

• The blood rushed to my head, but I only answered, “A new broom sweeps clean.”

• A gilded coach, drawn by the most beautiful horses in the richest trappings, sweeps along the streets—a gorgeous vision.

• Fresh gangs manned the sweeps and the riders on the eastern bank eased their pace to a walk.

• Each time the tidal wave sweeps in toward the shore it urges the finer particles of sediment along with it.

• The night wind sweeps across the cheerless park, chilling us to the bone.

• The janitor should wash the clothes-racks with the acid bichloride solution every time he sweeps.