Swept example sentences

There were many storms that swept away their fields and homes, his mother tells him.As the skies darkened, and the dust swept in, people were blinded and choked.I hung on to him, yet the waves knocked me down and swept over me.Sanjeev jumped into the water to rescue her, but they were both swept away.Then came the first giant wave that swept both of them away.Within a year, Solidarity swept across Poland and had about one crore members.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.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.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.It was, however, only after the 1860s that settlers swept into the Great Plains across the River Mississippi.After the mid-eighteenth century, however, the enclosure movement swept through the countryside, changing the English landscape for ever.