sweep through something

The words swept through her head and made no sense.

It was as if a cold fire swept through her.

Then the staff swept through them, and they, too, were gone.

But by the late 1980s, change was sweeping through the region.

It was just a matter of sweeping them through the air.

By then he was already sweeping his way through Europe.

The process swept through him, but what was left behind couldn't function as a whole.

Fire sweeps through an old building in the middle of the night.

At the same time, a new sense of political responsibility was sweeping through rock.

His influence swept through the movie business at a critical time.