Example Sentences

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In a matter of minutes, Davis had vacuumed up most of the bees to save the match.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2024

Rodgers’s showdown with Russell Wilson, who returned from a finger injury, had vacuumed the hype leading into the game.

From Washington Post • Nov. 15, 2021

Near the end of the second day, after all the figures were up on the wall and sculptor Charlie Mostow had vacuumed leftover debris, Howard sat before the scene for photographs.

From Washington Post • Aug. 9, 2021

But some of the animals might have simply starved because competing predators had vacuumed up available forage fish.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 31, 2019