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Meanings of sweep off in English
Spanish
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Examples for "sweep away"
Examples for "sweep away"
1
Go and sweep away that cobweb, and be more careful in future.
2
The task of the modern civiliser is to sweep away sham idealisms.'
3
It is a refuge of lies, which death will fearfully sweep away.
4
He flung out a hand that seemed to sweep away a world.
5
Tear down temple and stronghold; sweep away the marble palace and log-house!
Usage of sweep off in English
1
When the snow stops falling, come and sweep off the walk.
2
A few years sufficed to sweep off all the chiefs of the great house.
3
To bring her some flowers and sweep off the leaves.
4
I sweep off the glasses, stow them in a vest pocket, and blink away afterimages.
5
The whole enginery of iniquity is set in motion to sweep off this strange foreign propaganda.
6
You can sweep off to combat deforestation in Kenya, or help with wallaby conservation in Australia.
7
About five o'clock the porter of the store next to it began to sweep off the sidewalk.
8
He top-edged a sweep off spinner Jeetan Patel to be held at deep backward square-leg by Kane Williamson.
9
Of what use to cultivate the land when the Mahdists might at any moment sweep off the crops?
10
Why don't they sweep off 400 or 500 of them with the cannon?
11
Arcot bent down to tilt it and sweep off the dirt; he grasped it with one hand, and pulled.
12
But these people would well deserve that we should sweep off every mule and yoke of oxen around Evora.
13
Grape-vines were tied across from tree to tree, to trip up the passers-by or to sweep off their caps.
14
He was bowled through his legs after yorking himself in an attempt to play a reverse- sweep off Joel Paris.
15
They should sweep off four or five hundred of them with the cannon; the rest would then set off fast enough.
16
A grievous pestilence may sweep off an isolated people before the aid of the physician can arrive to arrest its progress.
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United Kingdom
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