"sweep" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In her mind, she saw those two poor souls swept overboard.
- No, the people swept overboard were lost to their fate, whatever that might be.
- Swept overboard, of course, without being either seen or heard, poor devil!
- He does not want her to be swept overboard.
- The captain, three mates and the crew of 28 were swept overboard.
- Several men were swept overboard, and Proteus let himself go with the surge.
- One of the four injured was swept overboard two miles (three kilometers) from the harbor.
- The deck was washed clean of anything not made fast, and I guessed the people, too, had been swept overboard.
- At night, the seas ran high and man after man was swept overboard.
- Moments after he left the deck, the crewman who had taken his place was swept overboard.
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