When the rain gust passed, the mountain-top had been swept bare; all the Workers were gone, surely destroyed.

Grocers start seeing the gourmet-food counters swept bare again.

The cultivated land formed a broad horseshoe around the relic, the ground immediately in front of the cliff swept bare.

Supermarket shelves have been swept bare from product recalls.

Even the place where they had built a tiny campfire had been swept bare to the fire-darkened stone.

A few distant figures trudged, heads down, over the grass; the park was swept almost bare of people.

Before long the street was swept almost bare.

Had there been raiders in the dale, certainly this field would have been swept bare.

For her part, McEwan was in no hurry to see the streets swept bare.

There was no furniture and the wooden floor was swept bare.