Example Sentences

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The majority of recruiting sites WSU fans were scrubbing through Friday to gather more information on Gueye list the player at 6 feet 11, 205 pounds.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2021

A leading figure in the city’s artistic scene, named Matt Hummel, told the paper that people were scrubbing their Facebook feeds of mentions of similar places, and communicating through an encrypted messaging system.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2016

Workers were scrubbing the walls clean every day but the regular scrubbing would damage the floral mosaics and shiny marble surface, said Bhuvan Vikram of the Archaeological Survey of India.

From The Guardian • May 23, 2016

It was a warm spring Saturday, and the brothers and their helpers were scrubbing and rinsing another customer’s car, as several other vehicles waited behind them in the backsplash from the hose.

From Washington Times • May 15, 2016

Next to them, two boys were scrubbing down the deck of a sailboat.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt