How to Use sweep aside in a Sentence

sweep aside

verb
  • Rules that were supposed to keep this from happening are swept aside.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This obligation sweeps aside politics and stands above legal debates.
    — David Kay, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2025
  • They were also swept aside by Guardiola’s men 3-0 in the league at Stamford Bridge only five weeks ago.
    — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • Russia may have been thwarted in its immediate bid to sweep aside the Ukrainian president and swallow its neighbor whole.
    — Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Will he be swept aside by Jakobi Meyers or Brian Thomas, whenever either returns?
    — Michael Salfino, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Manchester City had been swept aside and Darwin Nunez had outshone Erling Haaland on their debuts.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The framework trains robots to use their entire arm instead of just a gripper, allowing machines to gather or sweep aside clusters of objects in ways that resemble human movement.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • South Africa had tried to acclimatize to playing in these testing conditions by training pre-tournament at high-altitude Pachuca, but were swept aside by a much stronger team.
    — Duncan Alexander, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Perceptions that the work fostering inclusiveness at the University of Denver has been swept aside are far from reality.
    — Christopher Whitt, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Sources indicate Middleton stepped up when Harry and Meghan left the royal family and is now feeling like her loyalty is not being rewarded, while the fact that the two left is being swept aside.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 June 2026
  • Those fears were swept aside by the broader anxieties of Americans eager for a consolidated department to protect them from another 9/11-style attack.
    — Nick Miroff, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2026
  • At the same time, investors are growing increasingly worried about the businesses that will potentially be swept aside — or at least significantly upended — by the new applications that are being steadily rolled out.
    — Bloomberg, Oc Register, 16 Feb. 2026
  • At the same time, investors are growing increasingly worried about the businesses that will potentially be swept aside — or at least significantly upended — by the new applications that are being steadily rolled out.
    — Jeran Wittenstein, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Balance between consistency and rotation After beating Aston Villa, Slot made one change for a victory over Real Madrid before the same starting XI was swept aside at Manchester City.
    — The Athletic's Liverpool Staff, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The situation had grown so dire that there was serious discussion about whether to try dictatorship modeled along the lines of Benito Mussolini’s Italy or even Adolf Hitler’s Germany, where the Reichstag fire just a week before Roosevelt’s inauguration would be used to sweep aside democracy.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • Retreat of the Old Order Being swept aside is the liberal world order that emerged after World War II and which was in theory grounded in political liberalism, economic openness and global cooperation—and promoted by the United States.
    — Matthew Tostevin, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Aaron Schwartz | Afp | Getty Images Another big jobs report in May has pretty much swept aside the possibility of interest rate cuts anytime soon — and in the process underscored the tricky policy path ahead for new Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh.
    — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 5 June 2026
  • New Mexico defeated San Diego State 23-17 in double overtime on Friday to force its way into the conversation, while UNLV swept aside in-state rival Nevada 42-17 on Saturday night.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 30 Nov. 2025
  • However, watching Manchester City be swept aside by Champions League specialists Real Madrid, or Chelsea wilt against last year’s winners Paris Saint-Germain, or even Arsenal labour to a 1-1 draw at Bayer Leverkusen, stirred echoes of previous European campaigns at this time of year.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2026

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