sweep out
Example Sentences
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Every household, every culture has some new year’s practices, like cleaning the house beforehand so you don’t sweep out the new year’s luck with the trash after Jan. 1.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2023
Once outside the cell, chloride ions attract water that helps tiny, hair-like cilia sweep out mucus from the airways.
From Science Daily • Oct. 10, 2023
The new Domestic and Sexual Offences Unit - or Daso unit - represents an attempt to sweep out the dark corners of a force with a trust problem.
From BBC • Oct. 12, 2022
A band of young men followed him on motorbikes waving flags brandishing the party symbol — a broom to sweep out corruption.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 19, 2022
While the fire catches, I sweep out the snow that has accumulated under the empty windows, using a twig broom my father made me when I was about eight and I played house here.
From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins
