sweepy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of sweepy
Example Sentences
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“Then the breaking ball gets sweepy, the fastball is inconsistent.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2022
The police filmed all this, using sweepy drone shots and a little Bollywood magic.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2020
The day was still grey, with sweepy rain-clouds on the sea—gruesome, objectionable.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
The expanded waters gather on the plain, They float the fields and overtop the grain; Then, rushing onward, with a sweepy sway, Bear flocks and folds and laboring hinds away.
From Mosaics of Grecian History by Willson, Marcius
Cf. the posthumous fragment by Gray on Education and Government, 48: "And where the deluge burst with sweepy sway."
From Select Poems of Thomas Gray by Carruthers, Robert
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