How to use "swept" in a sentence

A chill swept down her back.

Her shoulder-length hair - deep brown, almost black, glossy - swept across her brow, feathered back at the sides, and framed her face as though it were a painting by a great master

She just surrendered to the racking grief that swept through her and did not question it.

In letters that were supposed to look as if they had been formed from rotting shroud cloth, the artist had emblazoned the title across the top of the first page, above a somber, well-detailed scene of a rain-swept graveyard

Laden with dust and with the powdery white sand that had been swept in from the desert, the air abraded their faces and had an unpleasant taste.

It swept through the graveyard, fluting between the headstones and the larger monuments, whispering a promise of more snow, much more than the meager flurries it now carried.

The guard swung the submachine gun into firing position as they swept past him.

The helicopter continued to follow the frozen river north, through the snow-swept valley.

One or two adventurous people went into the darkness and crawled quite near the Martians, but they never returned, because now and again a light-ray swept round the common, and the Heat-Ray was ready to follow

You can understand the wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world at dawn on Monday morning

In another moment they were caught and swept forwards with the stream of vehicles

He had swept it all away for no reason at all, it seemed.