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Collocations for sweep - noun

ADJECTIVE

great, long, wide
The house overlooks the great sweep of the St Lawrence River.
single
comprehensive
Her eyes made a comprehensive sweep of the room.
elegant, graceful
broad, dramatic, epic, grand
the broad cultural sweep of Flaubert's novel
He dismissed his assistant with a grand sweep of his hand.

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VERB + sweep

make, take
We made a wide sweep south to the River Dee.

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PREPOSITION

in one sweep (figurative)
Thousands of jobs were lost in one broad sweep.
with a sweep
with a sweep of his arm

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Collocations for sweep - verb

Sweep is used with these nouns as the subject:
breeze, cloak, craze, current, epidemic, eye, gale, gaze, hysteria, panic, rumour, storm, surge, wave, wind

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Sweep is used with these nouns as the object:
bang, chimney, crumb, dirt, dust, election, floor, sidewalk, snow

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