"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) clean, clear, open
Kolokacji: 3
(6) upward, downward
Kolokacji: 2
(7) low, gracefully, gently
Kolokacji: 3
(8) close, carefully
Kolokacji: 2
1. sweep closer = zamiatać bliższy sweep closer
  • What lay beyond the bridge swept closer, chasing him as it had always chased him.
  • After ten minutes, when Cairo was only a glow in the sky behind them, the Chevy suddenly swept closer.
  • But it was not, he saw, as the Snakes swept closer, the Snakes alone.
  • The focus of the storm swept closer.
  • Eve watched, fascinated, as the motorboat roared toward the harbor, and the airborne figure swept closer.
  • He swept closer, lower, and on middle magnification he saw pure horror.
  • He shifted silently as the beam from the flashlight swept closer.
  • Before they could strike the City swept closer; had hidden them from me.
  • She watched spellbound from her knees as the monsters swept closer.
  • Karen's flyer swept closer, swooped lower, swiftly grew larger in the sky.
2. carefully sweep = ostrożnie zamieć carefully sweep
(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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