vacuum cleaning
- a word derived from vacuum cleaner.
Example Sentences
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Returning to Britain for a short residency and an exhibition at the Camden Arts Center, she showed stark metal pieces with compartments filled with debris and vacuum-cleaning dust.
From New York Times • May 18, 2022
While they lunched, dark, handsome Neophytos Sophocleous, newest of the Cypriot servants, was at work vacuum-cleaning the Harding bedroom.
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Meanwhile, another Ordnance team commanded by tall, cheery Major James P. Hamill, 27, was vacuum-cleaning the V-2 factory.
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For Every Day's A Holiday Paramount made a determined effort to de-umph Mae West by vacuum-cleaning the script, disguising Mae in a fantastic black French periwig.
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Sweepers, with rotary brooms and rakes, crablike all-purpose handling robots, a couple of vacuum-cleaning robots, each with a flexible funnel-tipped proboscis and a bulging dust-sack.
From The Cosmic Computer by Piper, H. Beam