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Meanings of sweep in English
Catalan
escura-xemeneies Spanish
limipa chimeneas Portuguese
ser empurrado Synonyms
Examples for "drag"
Examples for "drag"
1
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.
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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
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.
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 in English
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.
6
I sweep it clear enough to get Thomas clear of the doorway.
7
Do you know how to do a sweep from a particular position?
8
Kyle glanced back often down the sweep of the great serpent behind.
9
And that means that they're just going to sweep our population aside.
10
The soul needs air; a wide sweep and frequent change of it.
11
The sweep of a gray dress showed in front of the settle.
12
Twenty years would sweep him forward to the futuristic date of 1955.
13
This would sweep the approach in front and upon the left flank.
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There was no let-up in the steady creaking of the long sweep.
15
The only question is how emphatically it's going to sweep the Oscars.
16
Then put the fire-place in order, and sweep and dust the kitchen.
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Sweep across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
South Africa
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