From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe sweep of somethingthe sweep of somethinga) BENDa long curved line or area of land the wide sweep of lawn b) VARIOUS/OF DIFFERENT KINDSthe many different and important ideas, events, or qualities of something the broad sweep of history → sweep
Examples from the Corpus
wide sweep• Jimmy made a wide sweep of the littered clearing, finding his own kind of kindling.• I counted more than 30 tufted ducks while at least 80 mallards were making wide sweeps round the pond before resettling.• Cut to the wide sweep of Hampstead Heath. 