1.   An unfinished black wool tuxedo dress fitted through the bust and waist had satin insets down the back descending below the ankle with a grand sweep.

2.   A grand sweep of transportational tastelessness was calling to me.

3.   But he never comes close to capturing the grand romantic sweep and seductiveness of the great movie vampires.

4.   But in the grand sweep of technological progress, that may not be a fair way to consider safety, or even a sensible one.

5.   But who needs a ham and cheese sandwich when you have a role in the grand sweep of history?

6.   He scales down the usual grand sweep of the atmosphere to a claustrophobic garden.

7.   If unicolonial insects were successful in the grand sweep of evolutionary time, Case said, they would probably appear more often.

8.   In an ideological era when grand sweep is often more valued than compromise, President Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole seemed like throwbacks Monday.

9.   In the grand sweep, athlete misbehavior is news as familiar as it is dismaying, and, as a consequence, easily dismissable.

10.   Thackara, an American living in London, intends an epic incorporating spiritual and historical lessons into the grand sweep of its multiple stories.