"sweep" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Finally, an electron beam periodically sweeps across the target, effectively scanning the stored image, discharging each granule, and producing an electronic signal like in the iconoscope.
- A wire brush periodically swept the cotton off the blade as it came around, preventing the machine from jamming.
- In 19th century England, Roger was slang for the cloud of toxic green gas that swept through the chlorine bleach factories periodically.
- Khe, W aWelta W i& He headed forward to investigate, swinging from one secure hold to the next as dark water periodically swept over the deck.
- The terrain undulated gently in a washboard pattern created by the dust storms that periodically swept Mars from pole to pole, and could last months.
- These afforded some cover as the three agents crept forward so that, despite the bright floodlights that periodically swept the area, they managed to move along unseen.
- While there is widespread public annoyance at politicians, there is little of the "throw the bums out" sentiment that periodically sweeps the United States.
- As recently as the early 1980's, soldiers periodically swept through remote villages they considered hostile, killing as they rampaged.
- If unlucky, they might have lost family members to the terror that periodically swept parts of the country.
- Poor and living in slums, the Irish were particularly susceptible to a series of epidemics that periodically swept the city.
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