clean sweep

noun

: a victory in which one side or team wins every game, contest, etc.

The Red Sox won the series in a clean sweep.

The election was a clean sweep for local Democratic candidates.

: a complete change in something

The new governor has made a clean sweep of the staff in the governor's mansion.

Examples of clean sweep in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Their rewiring of Test cricket was thrilling everyone back in 2022 (apart from a sniffy Australia) when England became the first team to complete a clean sweep in Pakistan and in some style. —

Tim Ellis, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024 French President Emmanuel Macron showed up just before the clean sweep, with Joris Daudet taking the top podium spot and sending this Gallic crowd into ecstasy on a balmy night. —

Larissa Gao, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2024 Kochi also served as general secretary of the Awami League’s Dhaka City North arm, a fact that has led a group of BGMEA members to accuse his faction of rigging the March elections that awarded it with a clean sweep. —

Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019 According to Rusch, solar power company Sunrun could be a major beneficiary of a Democratic clean sweep. —

Pia Singh, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for clean sweep

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