Example Sentences

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I find that I am grossed out by things in her home that did not used to bother me: unswept floors, mildew in the shower, pet hair on the sofa and beds, etc.

From Slate • Apr. 17, 2018

But for reasons that I’ll perhaps never understand completely, I cannot abide an unswept floor.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2014

New York has a habit of devouring its young, leaving the bones in the unswept street and moving on.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2011

Once on the roof, amid unswept gutters and frosty tiles, Nigel's lines quickly got posher and more significant, as if he was drunk on family tradition.

From The Guardian • Jan. 2, 2011

But now the village was unswept, the water polluted, and the countryside littered with plastic bags and wrappers.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela