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Meanings of sweeper in English
Catalan
màquina d'escombrar A cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet.
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Examples for "carpet sweeper"
Examples for "carpet sweeper"
1
There is a broom and carpet sweeper in the storeroom, and plenty of dust cloths.
2
The colored man was running a carpet sweeper.
3
They were a pie knife and a table crumber in the form of a miniature carpet sweeper.
4
Translated this meant a run over the floor with a carpet sweeper and a change of sheets.
5
The rubber-tired wheels of an old carpet sweeper can be used to advantage in making a pair of roller skates.
Usage of sweeper in English
1
The man had a broom in his hand; he was a crossing-sweeper.
2
The street sweeper advances the interests of society by the cleanliness effected.
3
Another man overseeing one of the principal departments started as a sweeper.
4
He was a crossing-sweeper by trade and a friend of the curate.
5
Beyond it, somewhere in the rear, I could hear a vacuum sweeper.
6
The sweeper does better at holiday seasons than at any other time.
7
He held up his whip, with an arch sign, to the sweeper.
8
Boori Ma, sweeper of the stairwell, had not slept in two nights.
9
The 'under-woman', or 'second ayah', was a member of the sweeper caste.
10
There surely is something pleasing in this constancy of affection in a chimney-sweeper.
11
A social connection with the first crossing-sweeper would be less objectionable.
12
A crossing sweeper can discover a sixpence lying in the road.
13
The ci-devant sweeper, in his smart livery, appeared at the door.
14
Who knows what other sweeper programs they've got running these days?
15
He had held before a court appointment; being, I believe, the Residency sweeper-out.
16
It is the crossing sweeper who loses a sixpence who shows real originality.
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Sweeper across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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