Swept example sentences

It was, however, only after the 1860s that settlers swept into the Great Plains across the River Mississippi.As the skies darkened, and the dust swept in, people were blinded and choked.My mouth watered, but I wasn't about to be swept away so easily.Even my legs felt limp; and a blackness swept over my brain.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.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.Thirteen year-old Meghna was swept away along with her parents and seventy-seven other people.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.There were many storms that swept away their fields and homes, his mother tells him.Sanjeev jumped into the water to rescue her, but they were both swept away.I hung on to him, yet the waves knocked me down and swept over me.Within a year, Solidarity swept across Poland and had about one crore members.