sweeps
Synonyms
Phrases with the word
Examples
The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
A new broom sweeps clean.
A new broom sweeps in a new way.
Whilst the tall maid is stooping, the little one sweeps the house.