"Sweeping" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
Comprehensive; Including in its scope many persons or objects; as a sweeping objection
Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or
litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying
everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things;
as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping accusation.
of Sweep
A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.
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What do you call the outside of a hand gren-egg ?The bombshell !
Length; extent; sweep; as, scope of cable.
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