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How to pronounce “sweeping”
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Pronunciation guide for sweeping
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of sweeping with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Let’s Help Refugees Thrive, Not Just Survive
So while we're making sweeping progress
- Definition summary
- present participle and gerund of sweep
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce sweeping
Let’s Help Refugees Thrive, Not Just Survive
So while we're making sweeping progress
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “sweeping”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of sweep
- [Noun]
- (countable) An instance of sweeping.
- (uncountable) The activity of sweeping.
- [Adjective]
- Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
- Completely overwhelming.
- Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)
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Similar Sounds
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