Meanings of sweeping wave in English

The umpire made his sweeping wave of hand and the breathless crowd caught his decision.

Then, with another and more sweeping wave of the arm, he stubbornly strengthened himself in his hopes.

He included all that section of the country in a sweeping wave of his hand, and burst forth:

A distant shout broke in upon their conversation- alowcontinued roar, like the swelling tumult of a sweeping wave.

For mammography, in contrast, it was the sweeping wave of privatization in postwar America that provided the opportunity to run the trial.

His government constructed makeshift schools and hospitals, parallel networks of services staffed by the Serb-dispossessed, capitalizing on a sweeping wave of volunteerism.

And a sweeping wave of anti-abortion laws has closed clinics in many states, cresting with an awesome force over the last five years.

At her startled shriek he wrenched his massive body half around and menaced everyone in the room with a sweeping wave of his revolver.

Griffin introduced them with a sweeping wave of the hand as he advanced the throttle and spun the wheel to break contact with the ship.

Sorrow and distress now began to roll upon them in deep, sweeping waves.

Her hair was beautifully dressed in sweeping waves with scarcely any artificial work upon it.

Its surface was raised into long, sweeping waves that curved sharply and broke upon themselves.

Long steel-fringed lines of red and blue, sweeping waves of cavalry, horse batteries rattling and bounding-downthey came on to our crumbling ranks.