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
Shawn Fain, who took office in March after workers voted to sweep out most of the union’s old leadership, listed grievances with Stellantis, General Motors and Ford in a wide-ranging talk Friday with reporters.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 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
Was he going to sweep out the place?
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
