clean sweep
Example Sentences
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The Premier League will now look to Arsenal to complete the set, and become only the second league since Italy in 1989-90 to do a clean sweep of all three trophies.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
Miles McBride scored 25 points and Jalen Brunson added 22 points to hand the Knicks a 4-0 series clean sweep.
From BBC • May 11, 2026
Nvidia’s sales growth isn’t slowing soon, but round two of the AI hardware battle—the inference phase—might not be the clean sweep for Nvidia that round one was.
From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026
Just as in 2022, when England were swatted aside 25-13 in the final game of a clean sweep, this was supposed to be the match in which they clinched a Grand Slam.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
The deep ruts in the road were frozen and glazed with ice; the wind had a clean sweep across the prairies, a sweep that sometimes seemed about to carry Jethro before it.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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