Examples of swept in a Sentence
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Conventional helicopters, for example, have a pretty low disc loading thanks to their huge swept rotor area.
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New Atlas, 26 Nov. 2025
The term refers to patterns that look like the remnants of swept sand.
—Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
Most doormats can be vacuumed, shaken, swept, or hosed off, although some can also be spot cleaned or even washed in the washing machine.
—Lee Alisha Williams, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2024
What is happening with those exaggerated speed lines over the swept, swollen fenders?
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
Lily Collins did her part to convince the masses that bangs are always a good idea, as elsewhere, Lizzo’s curled and swept updo played well with pink talons and rosy lips.
—Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2023
As green light through the plane tree ripples across the swept marble of the pavement, like scales of a grass snake, the waitress bowls up with raki in a plastic bottle, rolling her eyes in amusement at our worried talk of traffic jams and septic tanks.
—Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 May 2022
Attached to the tweet was a photo of a clean-swept desk before an orderly collection of curious desktop appliances, backlit, through a large picture window, by the sun’s reflection in an azure surf.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2020
These agile swept-wing planes, and the pilots in them, can sustain some 9 Gs of force during sharp turns and other maneuvers.
—Rob Verger, Popular Science, 1 May 2020
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New Atlas, 26 Nov. 2025
The term refers to patterns that look like the remnants of swept sand.
—Kevin Chroust, Outside Online, 5 Feb. 2025
Most doormats can be vacuumed, shaken, swept, or hosed off, although some can also be spot cleaned or even washed in the washing machine.
—Lee Alisha Williams, Southern Living, 15 Mar. 2024
What is happening with those exaggerated speed lines over the swept, swollen fenders?
—Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
Lily Collins did her part to convince the masses that bangs are always a good idea, as elsewhere, Lizzo’s curled and swept updo played well with pink talons and rosy lips.
—Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2023
As green light through the plane tree ripples across the swept marble of the pavement, like scales of a grass snake, the waitress bowls up with raki in a plastic bottle, rolling her eyes in amusement at our worried talk of traffic jams and septic tanks.
—Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 May 2022
Attached to the tweet was a photo of a clean-swept desk before an orderly collection of curious desktop appliances, backlit, through a large picture window, by the sun’s reflection in an azure surf.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2020
These agile swept-wing planes, and the pilots in them, can sustain some 9 Gs of force during sharp turns and other maneuvers.
—Rob Verger, Popular Science, 1 May 2020
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“Swept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/swept. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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