How to Use sweep up in a Sentence

sweep up

phrasal verb
Definition of sweep upnext
  • Most have been swept up in Israeli raids in the West Bank.
    — Susannah George, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Jaleel Stallings was swept up in the chaos of protests over George Floyd’s murder.
    — Jamiles Lartey, Washington Post, 16 June 2024
  • The Earth sweeps up the dust like a car speeding through a cloud of insects on the highway.
    — Vahe Peroomian, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • But these are not the first homes in the area to suddenly be swept up by ocean waves.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 25 Sep. 2024
  • So, why not sweep up an amazing deal on your next two-piece?
    — Emily Belfiore, Travel + Leisure, 24 May 2024
  • Three other resort guests were swept up by the avalanche at KT-22.
    — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Deep-clean the pantry, run the sheets through the wash, sweep up all that random sand that’s collected in the corners of the room.
    — Grace Smith, Southern Living, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Sure; but only briefly, until the scoops get swept up in the news cycle.
    — Alexander Sorondo, Vox, 31 July 2024
  • Sand from the desert below was swept up into the mushroom cloud.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Taylor Swift swept up the most awards, taking home four gongs.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Kranz, passing by, is swept up by the sound and dances joyfully with a young stranger.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Don’t act too quickly or get swept up in someone else’s dream.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The shards of fluorescent tubes are swept up after the match.
    — Joshua Needelman, Curbed, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The Perfect Find actor's long hair has been swept up into two twisty space buns.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 10 July 2023
  • People are trying to sweep up the debris like cups and paper.
    — CBS News, 3 July 2023
  • Crash is seen sweeping up, turning off the light to the shop and adjusting the roses as sunlight beams in from the door.
    — Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • For a hint of '90s glam, the model's hair was swept up into a messy-chic updo with face-framing pieces.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024
  • They’re also meant to sweep up the shards of our shattered attention spans.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
  • But this tale isn’t an account of some distressed damsel who gets swept up in the underworld.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The floodwaters swept up a train car and sent it crashing into the brewery.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2024
  • Flood waters swept up finished glassware from a storage room and sent it across the mill to the control room.
    — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2023
  • Shattered glass from a broken display had been swept up, and a 5-by-3-foot hole in the roof of the cellar had been patched with plywood.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
  • Just be prepared to sweep up any loose fibers every so often.
    — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Kids, of course, aren’t professionals, but many of our young athletes are swept up in a world that treats them as such.
    — Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
  • There are definitely two sides to the coin of getting swept up in our show’s release for sure.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 May 2024
  • Several dozen of the prisoners were swept up in the surge of arrests in the West Bank that followed Oct. 7, though most had been held for longer.
    — Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • RealPage is also been swept up in the FTCs, well, shenanigans.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Here was Britney, shaving her head, only for someone to sweep up the clippings and put them on eBay for $50 each.
    — Hayley Maitland, Vogue, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But even though she was swept up in the world of science, Fox always maintained her early passion for art.
    — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Stephen Roach, for example, former chief economist at Morgan Stanley, warned investors against being too swept up in the China market rally .
    — Nicole Teo, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024

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