How to Use sweep aside in a Sentence

sweep aside

phrasal verb

• The tension remains, until the story needs it to be swept aside for a grander statement.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
• The project needs to be ambitious enough to sweep aside in its entirely the exercise-in-obscuity that is Circular A-4.
  — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Revolution is typically portrayed as the final act that the struggle has been building toward, as the old ways are swept aside in favor of a new and presumably glorious future.
  — Catherine Bray, Variety, 6 Sep. 2023
• But the establishment of democracy was not about sweeping aside the corrupt institutional landscape that had been created by the dictatorship.
  — Eduardo Mello, Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2018
• Congress will again need to fund the government in coming weeks risking a crisis as views are hardening, particularly among the right-flank lawmakers whose demands were ultimately swept aside this time in favor of a more bipartisan approach.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2023
• What this interpretation leaves out, according to Perl-Rosenthal, is that all the transatlantic revolutions began to unfold at an accelerating pace as the initial revolutionary vanguard was swept aside.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• President Biden began sweeping aside his predecessor’s restrictive immigration policies on his first day in office.
  — Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• Washington backed the uncompromising secular reformer Benito Juárez, who swept aside Maximilian’s forces and ordered the archduke’s execution by firing squad.
  — Richard Feinberg, Foreign Affairs, 22 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Oct 2024