sweepings
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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In a statement Banksy jokes: "While the unauthorised Banksy shows might look like sweepings from my studio floor, CUT & RUN really is the actual sweepings from my studio floor."
From BBC
It’s peanut sweepings, as Homer Simpson would say.
From Washington Post
But sweepings demands for a more equitable society were left for later.
From Los Angeles Times
It seemed that he drove twice a week to all the local beauty parlors and barbershops, collecting their sweepings and arranging them, strand by strand, as carefully as a wren.
From Literature
The first time I tried it, I thought it might have been made with rotten fruit and a tincture of sweepings from the floor of a health food store.
From New York Times
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