Examples of use of swept
1. The so–called flat tax is another hobby horse of the right that swept the nation, then got swept away.
2. Shortly before midnight, Jennifer Lopez swept in.
3. The second liberation swept away blatant dictatorships.
4. The party seemed to have been swept from the streets, just as it has been swept from its dominant position in the Palestinian legislature.
5. That poor mother to see her child swept away like that." Firefighters struggled against the current to rescue the woman, but her son and stroller were swept downstream.