8 Metaphors for sweep

But a sweep for so distant a planet would be no easy matter.

Another day, having but four chickens, sweep comes the kite! and carries away the fattest and hopefullest of the brood.

The sweep of the current about the point was inshore, making the drift of the vessel strong against the anchor hawser.

All this time the sweep of the felucca were plied, the boats advancing at least two feet to the chase's one.

The great sweeps of a twining stem, like that of the Morning-Glory, are only an increase in the size of the circle or ellipse described.

You cried out with horror, and were about to run away, but I held you back and told you that these chimney-sweeps were poor boys, and that their parents were so poor that they could not support their children, but were compelled to send them to Paris to earn their bread by creeping into and cleaning our hot and dirty chimneys, with great trouble, and at the risk of their lives.

Lavender Sweep was a sort of house of call for everyone of note.

A capital like London is a Maelstroman immense whirlpoolwhose gyrations sweep in whatever is peculiarly desirable from the most distant regions of the empireso active becomes the love of gain when set in motion by the love of luxury.

8 Metaphors for  sweep