"sweep" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The city's dead were dispersed erratically, swept inland with the tsunami or dragged out to sea with the backwash.
- In 1728 a tsunami generated from an earthquake swept inland, destroying the town of Sechura, then located closer to the water.
- The raging seas swept inland, washing out tracks of the Marine Railway.
- Water swept over low coastal plains and swept hundreds of miles inland, destroying everything in its path.
- The sea swept more than a mile inland.
- The trail sweeps two hundred kilometers inland, up the ancient estuaries.
- The tidal wave swept inland for 22 miles, flooding fields and leaving many of them heavily salinated.
- Air swept inland on the Trade winds is shunted one way or another by the mountains, valleys, and vast open slopes.
- A Great Wave just comes out of the sea to our shores and sweeps inland.
- The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people.
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