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Meanings of sweep up in English
Portuguese
ser empurrado Synonyms
Examples for "drag"
Examples for "drag"
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Industry will probably be less of a drag this year, Lozano said.
2
Such requirements can drag out rule proposals for months, or even years.
3
They drag the river for days but of course nothing comes up.
4
Those in the bows leant over to drag in the young lord.
5
Here's another real world example: the drag-and-drop Ajax interface in Yahoo Sports.
1
The song is right: the Mournes do sweep down to the sea.
2
The military said it had prepared options for a Gaza ground sweep.
3
Rather, the question is: can it sweep through the other top categories?.
4
Analysts say a Democratic sweep could also bode well for emerging markets.
5
Britain's virtual sweep also included best comedy for Channel 4's The I.T.
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And in the midst of the fleecy tangle Snowball struggled in vain.
2
It is the same affair; part and parcel of the same tangle.
3
The state was honeycombed and mined; society was a tangle of plots.
4
The lane ended just beyond in a tangle of weeds and undergrowth.
5
Things are in a sad tangle; I can't see the way out.
1
We must not embroil you with your confessor; nor Juanita with hers.
2
Why embroil yourself in an affair with which you have no concern?
3
Persist in this foolishness and you may embroil your country in war!
4
Child sexual abuse scandals continue to embroil the Church around the globe.
5
And now a new difficulty arose to embroil Europe in trouble.
1
Those in the bows leant over to drag in the young lord.
2
It could also drag in the big regional powers, Russia and Turkey.
3
We drag in those people, sweat them a bit, and learn more.
4
Fighting that could escalate and even drag in Syria itself, he added.
5
One may bear one's own troubles, but not drag in other people.
Usage of sweep up in English
1
Sudden doors flap, and gusts of brutal jollity sweep up the street.
2
This was even better, for sometimes hard winds sweep up the river.
3
I suppose he's going to sweep up many detachments of the enemy.
4
Most mornings I sweep up crumbs of polystyrene, from chewed roof insulation.
5
Now, Betty, get a dust-pan and brush and sweep up that glass.
6
But that it should sweep up my daughter in its... crudities-that'shard.
7
He went back to sweep up the glass, and straighten up the place.
8
Spencer's father began to sweep up the broken pottery shards with a dustpan.
9
We'd sweep up the ashes and be done with a lot of trouble.
10
She would sweep up and down the grass while she dictated.
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Then nothing would be left but to sweep up the fragments.
12
From the west, bluish-black rain-clouds sweep up and open their sluice-gates.
13
When breakfast was over, it was his turn to sweep up.
14
We'll try to sweep up the mess afterwards. She sounded defeated and worn-out.
15
All that's left to do then is sweep up the theater and go home:
16
The broom and dustpan sweep up the pieces, and consign them to the dustbin.
This collocation consists of:
Sweep up through the time
Sweep up across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common