How to Use sweeping victory in a Sentence

sweeping victory

noun
  • For supporters of the ruling, Tuesday’s decision was a sweeping victory for the women’s sports movement.
    — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026
  • Her sweeping victory reflects the public’s desire for LDP reform and the nationwide rightward shift in politics.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Less than a year later, Venezuela’s electoral council—dominated by Maduro loyalists—announced another sweeping victory for his party in subsequent elections.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Other agencies use similar enforcement methods, so such a sweeping victory for AT&T and Verizon could have had widespread effects, advocates said.
    — ABC News, 4 June 2026
  • Though a centrist coalition led by Tusk has governed Poland since 2023, Law and Justice clawed back a sweeping victory with the election of Karol Nawrocki as president last year.
    — Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Advertisement The collapse came less than a year after Wilders’ PVV secured a sweeping victory in the November 2023 election but failed to form a stable government.
    — Callum Sutherland, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
  • In 2008, after the Democrats’ sweeping victory of the White House and Congress, the longtime Republican operative Ralph Reed began studying exit polls to understand why so many conservatives who wouldn’t have dreamed of voting for Al Gore or John Kerry had supported Obama.
    — Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026

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