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street cleaner

American  

noun

  1. a sanitation worker who cleans streets or sidewalks.


Example Sentences

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A temporary street cleaner died of a heat stroke while working in Madrid last year.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2023

“It’s sad and everything, but stopping everything? That’s a luxury,” said Al Mohamed, a street cleaner in north London, looking at broken beer bottles on the sidewalk.

From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2022

Carmen Ortega, 74, cares for her eight grandchildren with what she earns as a street cleaner.

From Reuters • Dec. 23, 2021

On Tuesday morning, Mr. Lovius was back at his job as a street cleaner, tidying up before the day’s stately memorial for Haiti’s assassinated leader in the Champs de Mars, the capital’s main square.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

I go to the side and knock on the door the street cleaner described.

From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron

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