I went over to check for a message and came back, doing a systematic sweep of the hall and noting people's movements.

We'll initiate a systematic sweep of the town until we can uncover that devil!

The first Kuiper Belt object had been discovered a few years earlier, and Dr. Brown thought it would be useful to do a systematic sweep of the sky to look for them.

He covered it in careful, systematic sweeps, exploring every corner and behind every door.

Now he began doing more than collecting them and placing them under his coercion spells; now he began finding out, in a systematic sweep through his mage-corps, just what they knew.

Michael E. Brown of the California Institute of Technology, who discovered Xena, is halfway through a systematic sweep of the sky that can detect planets out to a distance of 10 billion miles.

Quamus somehow managed to stay on his feet, spraying the demon's skull in slow, steamy, systematic sweeps.

She nodded as Moll began a systematic sweep of the destroyed device.

Informally, the astronomers have been calling it Xena after the television series about a Greek warrior princess, which was popular when the astronomers began their systematic sweep of the sky in 2000.

He closed his mouth and gulped, then began a systematic sweep of the floor.