"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
(9) simply, literally, bare
Kolokacji: 3
1. simply sweep = po prostu zamieć simply sweep
2. literally sweep = dosłownie zamieć literally sweep
3. sweep bare = zamiatanie nagi sweep bare
  • When the rain gust passed, the mountain-top had been swept bare; all the Workers were gone, surely destroyed.
  • Grocers start seeing the gourmet-food counters swept bare again.
  • The cultivated land formed a broad horseshoe around the relic, the ground immediately in front of the cliff swept bare.
  • Supermarket shelves have been swept bare from product recalls.
  • Even the place where they had built a tiny campfire had been swept bare to the fire-darkened stone.
  • A few distant figures trudged, heads down, over the grass; the park was swept almost bare of people.
  • Before long the street was swept almost bare.
  • Had there been raiders in the dale, certainly this field would have been swept bare.
  • For her part, McEwan was in no hurry to see the streets swept bare.
  • There was no furniture and the wooden floor was swept bare.
(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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