Examples:

• We're ready for Operation Clean Sweep.
• We virtually made a clean sweep on all the core elements.
• We've got to clean sweep this.
• In such a situation... one has to make a clean sweep to restore order.
• He has made a clean sweep of your fancied U.S. humanity, justice and virtue. Isn't that so?
• Common sense, as our rapporteur said, would suggest that labelling should make a clean sweep and list all the ingredients.
• The moral state of the people was so greatly changed that Brother Gillett often remarked that it did not seem like the same place. Indeed, it had made a clean sweep.
• Obviously, this problem needs to be resolved, not with a Gordian knot but with a clean sweep, by which I mean a harmonious, rational, functional solution that respects nations and states.
• Their aim is not so much to defend and promote human rights as to make a clean sweep of all the points of reference on which our societies are founded and replace them with an individualist jumble 'with neither lord nor master' .
• The Spanish national tennis team made a clean sweep in the tournament. It won all the singles and doubles medals.