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Meanings of sweeper (sweepers) in English
Catalan
màquina d'escombrar A cleaning implement with revolving brushes that pick up dirt as the implement is pushed over a carpet.
Usage of sweepers in English
1
The Palace still slept, and only the street-sweepers were about the streets.
2
IN olden times, May Day was the festival of chimney sweepers everywhere.
3
He extended the sweepers aerial and panned the device around the room.
4
And presumably therefore threatening the sweepers you had undertaken to protect.
5
Out to sea, the running lights of sweepers already studded the deeper gloom.
6
The sweepers and punkah-wallahs are rewarded separately by the recipient of their attentions.
7
The very sweepers of the crossings seemed to have gone out of town.
8
No road-sweepers here to brush up the run-over cats every morning.
9
We saw the milk-carts on their morning rounds and the street-sweepers at work.
10
The sweepers dropped their brooms and began carrying fire buckets full of water.
11
Many were carrying brooms and shovels, pretending to be road sweepers.
12
Our doctors are strict, and refuse is burned by the sweepers.
13
Last off would be the sweepers, carefully scuffling over the ruts.
14
He has refined tastes: well, you wouldn't like to live among crossing-sweepers, Tom.
15
Yes, sir, fetched over 500 street-sweepers to my primaries-machinecandidate and all that-oh
16
Western officials say the IED sweepers have made great progress.
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