"sweep" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

sweep verbo

sweep + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 23
sweep one's hand • sweep one's arm • sweep the floor • sweep the country • sweep the series • ...
verbo + sweep
Kolokacji: 3
begin sweeping • start sweeping • finished sweeping
sweep + preposición
Kolokacji: 46
sweep up • sweep through • sweep into • sweep over • sweep across • sweep down • sweep out • sweep off • ...
sweep + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 50
swept away • swept aside • sweep clean • sweep forward • quickly sweep • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 14
(1) away, aside
Kolokacji: 2
2. swept aside = odsunięty od siebie swept aside
  • Do that and all thought of civil rights are swept aside.
  • Our men took the first blow, but were soon swept aside.
  • All had been swept aside with the wave of a hand.
  • But their objections were swept aside and the rest, as they say, is history!
  • Now the good Commissioners have been swept aside together with the bad ones.
  • All that was swept aside in the first moment I dared speak to you.
  • I slipped, was swept aside, caught something and pulled myself back up.
  • In other countries, these communist classes did not understand and were swept aside.
  • "Due process is being swept aside because he's an immigrant."
  • A few brave guards tried to stop him, and were swept aside.
(2) clean, clear, open
Kolokacji: 3
(6) upward, downward
Kolokacji: 2
(7) low, gracefully, gently
Kolokacji: 3
(8) close, carefully
Kolokacji: 2
(9) simply, literally, bare
Kolokacji: 3
(10) immediately, instantly
Kolokacji: 2
(11) regularly, constantly
Kolokacji: 2
(12) grandly, majestically
Kolokacji: 2
(13) neatly, cleanly
Kolokacji: 2
(14) eventually, finally
Kolokacji: 2

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