sweep up

"Everything has been swept up in the idea of time running out."

But he does not want to sweep up their glass.

Just then, something dark swept up, right at her face.

I've been sweeping up there every night for the past ten days.

Save she was swept up into another time and place.

I asked an old woman who was sweeping up leaves.

The boy he swept up into the air was too small to have been a player.

I was beginning to understand how they worked now: someone had come back to sweep up the remains.

He swept up her hand and brought it to his lips.

Her eyes swept up to Diana for only a moment.

He was immediately swept up in a sea of people.

A black man was sweeping up at the end of the platform.

She says her sister was lost, swept up into the crowd.

The others looked almost as if they were sweeping up a dirty floor.

But let us also sweep up the mess outside our own front door.

So I'd come in a few days a week and type, sweep up, whatever.

And she had been swept up in its chaos only a short while ago.

He turned away, swept up my coat and held it out to me.

He swept up the money quickly, knowing, with these men, what would come next.

I just get to come in and try to sweep up the mess.

Walk out and leave me to sweep up the mess.

"How many of their communications people did we sweep up?"

The news media play along, and the country is swept up in war fever.

The question is, have they done this without sweeping up innocent people in the process?

They did not sweep up their kids and race for the hills.