How to Use sweep out in a Sentence

sweep out

verb
  • The vacuum does struggle with corners, so some debris may need to be swept out of its path.
    — Toni Sutton, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • People who sought refuge on the mainland and started walking back across the causeways got trapped and swept out to sea.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026
  • The Heat scored more than 100 points just once during that sweep out of the playoffs in April.
    — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Russia’s long-standing partners in Syria and Venezuela have been swept out of power.
    — Alan Cullison, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Then, it was being swept out of the best-of-three first round by the Hornets, the instant death by playoff lightning at the time.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The tourist, who was visiting from Southeast Asia, was then caught up in a rip and was swept out to sea, per the outlet.
    — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Last week, a 13-year-old boy swam for hours to shore to get help for his mother and siblings after the family was swept out to sea.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
  • This is truly taking a broom and sweeping out the organization.
    — Chris Perkins, Sun Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Several girls decided to swim out to avoid drowning in the cabin, and others were swept out by rushing waters.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 18 Nov. 2025
  • The woman's husband told authorities that his wife went missing after falling from their boat and being swept out to sea.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Local media reported that a weather advisory for rough seas was in effect at the time when the swimmers were swept out to sea.
    — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Bystanders initially had conflicting reports about whether the man was still in the sinkhole or had been swept out to sea, firefighters said.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • On Wednesday, rescuers attempted to save two women who were swept out to sea from a beach in Santa Cruz.
    — Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
  • Cline was one of five newcomers to take office after the 2022 election, when three incumbents were swept out of office.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Lifeguards in Ocean Beach, nearly two miles away, alerted a lifeguard tower about a dog that had been swept out into the rip current near a jetty.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 5 Dec. 2025
  • While being swept out of the castle, Arocho insisted to his fellow Faithfuls that Rinna gave him a kiss of death.
    — Melina Khan, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Two swimmers drowned and one remained missing off General Santos after being swept out to sea shortly after the quake hit.
    — ABC News, 11 June 2026
  • The Thunder put the Lakers in danger of getting swept out of the playoffs for just the 10th time in franchise history.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
  • But out beyond the final large, massive body that forms — the last one to sweep out all the other objects that share its orbit — are a large number of mostly icy bodies of various masses.
    — Big Think, 30 Apr. 2026
  • But he was grabbed out of his car and swept out of state to a regional ICE Processing Center before his lawyer could reach him.
    — Literary Hub, 18 Aug. 2025
  • There will come a day, a few years from now, when this building has been swept out and mopped again, when all the role players involved in this coaching search will also be eager to share what really happened over the last three weeks.
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2026
  • While Vosk’s sassier Cee Cee holds her own in the churn, Barrett, also a fine singer but trapped in the straight-and-narrow part (with sadder wigs), gets swept out to sea.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Fiscal deficits are likely to widen in two Indian states where incumbents were swept out of power in elections on the back of populist spending measures, economists said.
    — Ruchi Bhatia, Bloomberg, 5 May 2026
  • Hooker, who has previously told police his wife fell off their small boat and was swept out to sea, was arrested on Wednesday, April 8, but then released from custody five days later.
    — Cristian Benavides, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The Cavaliers were swept out of the Eastern Conference finals by the New York Knicks on Tuesday.
    — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • Every year, city officials can sweep out revenues that are not obligated to specific projects to use as general revenue, in what is known as a TIF surplus.
    — Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Last year, three San Clemente surfers and several Laguna Beach lifeguards rescued a woman walking on the beach in the same general area after she was swept out to sea.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • De Borbon, running for a ninth term as president, was swept out of office following a contentious campaign blemished by allegations of voter fraud in previous elections.
    — Linda Robertson june 23, Miami Herald, 23 June 2026
  • The search operations for an Army specialist who was swept out to sea in the Big Sur area have been suspended, authorities announced on Wednesday.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Transmission to people generally happens when virus-laden rodent excreta gets stirred up in dust and inhaled—for example, a person sweeping out a shed or garage with a rodent infestation without a mask.
    — ArsTechnica, 8 May 2026

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