Swept example sentences

As the skies darkened, and the dust swept in, people were blinded and choked.There were many storms that swept away their fields and homes, his mother tells him.It was, however, only after the 1860s that settlers swept into the Great Plains across the River Mississippi.I hung on to him, yet the waves knocked me down and swept over me.Then came the first giant wave that swept both of them away.After the mid-eighteenth century, however, the enclosure movement swept through the countryside, changing the English landscape for ever.Even my legs felt limp; and a blackness swept over my brain.Thirteen year-old Meghna was swept away along with her parents and seventy-seven other people.My mouth watered, but I wasn't about to be swept away so easily.They had to push away many human bodies — men, women, children — and carcasses of dogs, goats and cattle that the current swept against them as they moved ahead.Sanjeev jumped into the water to rescue her, but they were both swept away.I just remember reaching out for the new drink and watching helplessly as my arm, like some cheap prop in one of those 1950s horror movies with a name like The Undead Limb, violently swept the drink from its perch and onto her lap.Within a year, Solidarity swept across Poland and had about one crore members.