swept's Usage Examples:

, had swept the Aegean and Mediterranean.

All its charters were annulled, its privileges and those of its gilds swept away, and a heavy fine imposed.

When I was building, one of these had its nest underneath the house, and before I had laid the second floor, and swept out the shavings, would come out regularly at lunch time and pick up the crumbs at my feet.

He met her gaze, and her body bloomed with warmth in response to the possessive gaze that swept over her from head to foot before his eyes settled on the demon.

All signs of the palace were swept away, replaced by neat lines of apple trees that ran all the way to the beach beyond.

It became involved in a maelstrom of conflicting political motives, by which it was swept to Constantinople.

Kant swept away, so far as his influence extended, such " dogmatic metaphysics " and the old-fashioned theism which it constituted or included; but Kant himself introduced, in his own more sceptical yet also more moral type of theistic doctrine, a new trichotomy - God, Freedom, Immortality, the three " postulates " of the practical reason.

But Clive was followed by two inefficient successors; and in 1770 occurred the most terrible Indian famine on record, which is credibly estimated to have swept away one-third of the population.

There are ampler expanses of hard saliferous clay (shor) and on the north side of the desert of Lop the surface has been carved and sculptured by the wind into innumerable flat, tabletopped masses (jardangs) with vertical or even overhanging sides, separated from one another by deep-cut, wind-swept gullies, running from north-east to south-west.

Bangs can be long and side swept, or layered and blended well into the rest of the haircut to create a peekaboo effect.

The sea front was swept away, and the level of the land hereabouts was lowered.

Synonyms:

sweptback, sweptwing,

Antonyms:

dirty, forward, unswept,