Sweeps is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SWEEPS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SWEEP, to clean with a broom
• clean (an area) by brushing away dirt or litter
• move or remove (dirt or litter) by brushing it away
• move or push (someone or something) with great force
• hit (the ball) on the leg side by bringing the bat across the body from a half-kneeling position; hit a ball delivered by (a bowler) with such a stroke.
• move swiftly and smoothly
• cause to move swiftly and smoothly
• (of a person) move in a confident and stately manner
• affect (an area or place) swiftly and widely
• (of a geographical or natural feature) extend continuously in a particular direction, especially in a curve
• win all the games in (a series); take each of the winning or main places in (a contest or event)
• search (an area) for something
• examine (something) for electronic listening devices
• cover (an entire area) with a gun
• brush (hair) back from one's face or upwards
NOUN:
• an act of sweeping something with a brush
• a long, swift curving movement
• the movement of a beam across the screen of a cathode ray tube.
• an attacking stroke in which the bat is brought across the body from a half-kneeling position to hit the ball to leg.
• a comprehensive search or survey of a place or area
• a survey of the ratings of television stations, carried out at regular intervals to determine advertising rates.
• a long, typically curved stretch of road, river, country, etc.
• a curved part of a drive in front of a building
• the range or scope of something
• a sweepstake.
• an instance of winning every event, award, or place in a contest
• a long, heavy oar used to row a barge or other vessel
• a sail of a windmill.
• a long pole mounted as a lever for raising buckets from a well.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to clear or clean with a brush or broom

Words related to SWEEPS

sweep10 sweeping14 swept10

Words that contain SWEEPS

ensweeps13 upsweeps15 outsweeps14 peesweeps16 sweepstake19 sweepstakes20

How to use SWEEPS in a sentence

• When the north winds in winter are making upward sweeps over the curving summits of the High Sierra, the fact is sometimes published with flying snow-banners a mile long.
• Suddenly, as his eye sweeps the cave, he catches sight of a magic sword, made by the giants long ago, too heavy for warriors to wield.
• Everywhere from the shore the land sweeps up, slowly at first, then rapidly, toward the central mass, the rugged peak whereof goes by the name of Mount Misery.
• He does not, gypsy-like, hide with Gainsborough beneath a hedge, but his glance sweeps across a continent, and no detail escapes him.
• The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms.
• There are cords of association binding him to it, the rolling, restless tide of business, with its fluctuations and its cares, sweeps over him, and seems binding him to earth.
• Here and there among these hills, along the swift mountain streams, the land sweeps out into sunny little meadows filled in summer with rich, tender grasses, starred with flowers.
• The law of heredity sweeps down from the past and brings a terrible legacy to many who spend all their days in trying to escape from what has been forced upon them.
• As our globe sweeps through it, the lower stratum of air naturally sinks down into the valleys and like depressions.
• All the men remaining in the boats went up as fire sweeps when carried by the wind.
• Got under weigh at daylight, but it soon fell calm, and we made use of our sweeps.
• For thou to thy dearest art a wind of the bitter north, that sweeps from the Syrian hills, and wrinkles our cheeks and brows.
• Every vessel was now feeling for the wind, some with oars and sweeps to aid them.
• It rises to flood, a flood that sweeps mightily through the valleys of doubt and questionings all around about.
• Again that feeling of anticipation sweeps over him.
• Barely perceptibly the sweeps about them had altered during the last hour before midday.
• Nature sweeps away sickly or deformed creatures, and Society rejects an imperfectly developed talent.
• The moment the spiral reaches a loose sand-bed, it sweeps into its vortex all the particles of grit which it can hold.
• As he sped along, great waves like those of the sea rolled in wide sweeps across the meadow and through the tall wheat.
• They stand looking at each other for a moment, then she sweeps past him and goes out.

Similar words containing SWEEP without suffix s

sweep10 sweepy14 ensweep12 sweeper12 upsweep14 ensweeps13 outsweep13 peesweep15 sweepers13 sweepier13 sweeping14 upsweeps15 outsweeps14 peesweeps16 sweepback22 sweepiest14 sweepings15 ensweeping16 sweepbacks23 sweepingly19 sweepstake19 upsweeping18 minesweeper18 outsweeping17 sweepstakes20 minesweepers19 minesweeping20 sweepingness18 minesweepings21 sweepingnesses20

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