vacuum-clean

VERB
  1. clean with a vacuum cleaner
    vacuum the carpets
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How To Use vacuum-clean In A Sentence

  • It has more attachments than a vacuum-cleaner, including a precision trimmer, a shaver and an epilator. Times, Sunday Times
  • Hoover, whose history dates back to 1907, is one of the country's most iconic brands; the phrase "hoover up" is commonly understood to mean vacuum-cleaning, and also to eat or drink rapidly. Hoover, Dirt Devil Put on Auction Block
  • Some were truly incredible — from the impossibly tiny-mouthed filefish (No. 32), to the blue parrotfish (No. 35) that looked like wet sapphire, to the 2-foot-long remora (No. 34) that Adler insisted could adhere to my belly and hang there (it did, and the sensation was like having a vacuum-cleaner hose with a thousand tiny needles at its end stuck to your skin). The Mid-Life Slam
  • Some were truly incredible — from the impossibly tiny-mouthed filefish (No. 32), to the blue parrotfish (No. 35) that looked like wet sapphire, to the 2-foot-long remora (No. 34) that Adler insisted could adhere to my belly and hang there (it did, and the sensation was like having a vacuum-cleaner hose with a thousand tiny needles at its end stuck to your skin). The Mid-Life Slam
  • Some of the rackets we have encountered involved concealing stolen goods in vacuum-cleaning bags, buckets of soapy water and even, once, in lumps of unbaked bread dough.
  • It joins the 600 hand-drier - which uses a sixth of the electricity of conventional models - and 16 vacuum-cleaner variations. Times, Sunday Times
  • In his first volume he protested against the ‘vacuum-cleaner school of biography’ which shoves every particle of research into vast doorstep volumes.
  • Some were truly incredible — from the impossibly tiny-mouthed filefish (No. 32), to the blue parrotfish (No. 35) that looked like wet sapphire, to the 2-foot-long remora (No. 34) that Adler insisted could adhere to my belly and hang there (it did, and the sensation was like having a vacuum-cleaner hose with a thousand tiny needles at its end stuck to your skin). The Mid-Life Slam
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