How to Use sweep up in a Sentence

sweep up

phrasal verb

• Most have been swept up in Israeli raids in the West Bank.
  — Susannah George, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• The Earth sweeps up the dust like a car speeding through a cloud of insects on the highway.
  — Vahe Peroomian, CBS News, 5 July 2023
• Three other resort guests were swept up by the avalanche at KT-22.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Deep-clean the pantry, run the sheets through the wash, sweep up all that random sand that’s collected in the corners of the room.
  — Grace Smith, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2023
• Taylor Swift swept up the most awards, taking home four gongs.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
• Don’t act too quickly or get swept up in someone else’s dream.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
• The shards of fluorescent tubes are swept up after the match.
  — Joshua Needelman, Curbed, 1 Nov. 2023
• The Perfect Find actor's long hair has been swept up into two twisty space buns.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 10 July 2023
• People are trying to sweep up the debris like cups and paper.
  — CBS News, 3 July 2023
• Crash is seen sweeping up, turning off the light to the shop and adjusting the roses as sunlight beams in from the door.
  — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
• They’re also meant to sweep up the shards of our shattered attention spans.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• But this tale isn’t an account of some distressed damsel who gets swept up in the underworld.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
• Flood waters swept up finished glassware from a storage room and sent it across the mill to the control room.
  — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
• Shattered glass from a broken display had been swept up, and a 5-by-3-foot hole in the roof of the cellar had been patched with plywood.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
• Just be prepared to sweep up any loose fibers every so often.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2024
• Kids, of course, aren’t professionals, but many of our young athletes are swept up in a world that treats them as such.
  — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
• There are definitely two sides to the coin of getting swept up in our show’s release for sure.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 May 2024
• Several dozen of the prisoners were swept up in the surge of arrests in the West Bank that followed Oct. 7, though most had been held for longer.
  — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
• Here was Britney, shaving her head, only for someone to sweep up the clippings and put them on eBay for $50 each.
  — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
• But even though she was swept up in the world of science, Fox always maintained her early passion for art.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2024
• The actor had her hair swept up into a messy bun and wore minimal rosy makeup.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 July 2023
• His son was quickly swept up in seeking the approval of others online, Mr. Mahr said.
  — Catherine Pearson, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• There were fake flowers and Tootsie rolls, and some people put some trash there, just in homage—trash that Ernie would never be able to sweep up.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2023
• The country’s largest PBMs could get swept up into lawsuits, experts say.
  — Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 6 Feb. 2024
• What does any of that have to do with the latest batch of migrants swept up in a red state and deposited in California?
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• In the church courtyard, a gray-haired man is sweeping up broken glass and gathering small pieces of concrete.
  — Claire Harbage, NPR, 4 Apr. 2024
• The fluffier head sweeps up tough dirt without harming hardwood floors.
  — Brittany Johnson, Health, 11 Oct. 2023
• Convection in the mantle then swept up the Theia bits into Tuzo and Jason.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Stone's hair was swept up into a twist by her longtime hairstylist Mara Roszak.
  — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 25 Feb. 2024
• Lena spends days searching for signs of her father and her evenings swept up in prohibition-era Harlem nightlife.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024