1. sweep

verb. ['ˈswiːp'] move with sweeping, effortless, gliding motions.

Rhymes with Sweep

• oversleep
• mcsleep
• anandeep
• streep
• phillipe
• felipe
• bopeep
• asleep
• steep
• sleep
• schliep
• griep
• creep
• bleep
• veep
• tepe
• sheep
• sepe
• seipp
• seip
• seep
• riepe
• reep
• reap
• peep
• lepe
• leep
• leap
• kniep
• kneip

How do you pronounce sweep?

Pronounce sweep as swip.

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Sentences with sweep

1. Noun, singular or mass
Plug the other end into the closest outlet that proved non-functional during the previous sweep of the home.

2. Verb, base form
Flip the canvas, cushion or tarp over and sweep away any grass or other debris with a broom.

Quotes about sweep

1. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
- Stephen King

2. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

3. The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.For nothing now can ever come to any good.
- W.H. Auden, Selected Poems

2. sweep

verb. ['ˈswiːp'] sweep across or over.

3. sweep

verb. ['ˈswiːp'] sweep with a broom or as if with a broom.

4. sweep

verb. ['ˈswiːp'] force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action.

5. sweep

noun. ['ˈswiːp'] a wide scope.

6. sweep

verb. ['ˈswiːp'] to cover or extend over an area or time period.

7. sweep

verb. ['ˈswiːp'] win an overwhelming victory in or on.

8. sweep

verb. ['ˈswiːp'] clean by sweeping.

9. sweep

verb. ['ˈswiːp'] make a big sweeping gesture or movement.

10. sweep

noun. ['ˈswiːp'] a movement in an arc.