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    Use "cleaning" in a sentence

    cleaning example sentences

    cleaning


    1. Rain water harvesting, cleaning of small tanks before rainy season, closing of running taps, not allowing drawing of water directly from mains through electric motor, recycling water for WCs etc are some of the areas where we can generate awareness and guide others to act


    2. It is fun clearing up the sitting room of the annexe … I know Stephen said to leave it until we know for definite that Liz is coming, but I had nothing much to do this afternoon and sometimes a good cleaning session is therapeutic


    3. Dave finishes cleaning a fish he has just caught, takes a strip of the flesh and re-baits the hook, tosses it over the side


    4. Russ shakes his head, glances over at Abdullah, who is cleaning his ear with the barrel of his pistol


    5. ’ I said wearily to Molly as we resume our cleaning of the kitchen cupboards once I have reported on Stephen’s call


    6. Worst part was cleaning out the crew


    7. ‘Oh, it was only a case of unscrewing the U bend and cleaning it out, Nick, those things get really clogged up with gunk sometimes


    8. The cleaning has been my salvation to some extent


    9. After terminating the call and feeling irrationally pleased with herself that she knew how to, she pottered around the house, cleaning and tidying … it was satisfying


    10. She’d been amazed by the overabundance of cleaning materials that she had correctly guessed would be stored in the cupboard under the sink – some things defy cultural differences! Kneeling on the floor, all the better to examine the various spray containers and bottles piled in there, her amazement turned into confusion … there were plastic spray bottles for limescale removal, disinfecting the worktops … apparently killing 99% of all known germs - though that did raise the question of what danger the remaining 1% presented if it was so vital to get rid of the things … bottles of cream for cleaning the sink and another, lavender scented, for polishing wood, a big bottle of bleach that at least smelt familiar, and noxious substances for cleaning the oven that had signs warning of danger plastered all over them … it was an education

    11. was responsible for cleaning the shop side


    12. And from inside I caught the smell of cleaning fluids, lunch and the sound of gentle, delicate music


    13. And once you have established the habit of doing Yoga postures first thing in the morning it should become as much a part of your routine as having your morning bath or cleaning your teeth


    14. After days of cleaning up after me, my mother went to the nurse's station and screamed


    15. During cleaning it became clear that at some time in the distant past part of the church had been a temple dedicated to Pallas Athena and although it was not unusual for the locals to mix their beliefs, the church authorities were rather embarrassed and the work came to a standstill until it could be determined who would provide funds for the work to continue


    16. When Kate returned with the bag, Elizabeth was holding a screaming baby boy as the doctor was cleaning out his eyes


    17. Then, while Lucy, working on auto-pilot, cleaned the kitchen up again, her mother moved the torso, the head, the hoodie and two black bin liners full of soiled cleaning materials to an as yet unfilled area in the new patio base and proceeded to bury Alan’s mortal remains under lumps of hardcore and a layer of gravel


    18. in a bit of office cleaning?”


    19. I think the example I used was cleaning the loo


    20. But, you had to admire the way she took the reins firmly in her hands, working through the house, cleaning, repairing and clearing out the junk – just as well really, her mother was a poor thing and couldn’t manage at all

    21. The cleaning takes all morning, partly because I keep stopping to drink some water … I’m feeling bloody minded and refuse to take painkillers for the headache I am convinced had its origins in that bottle of wine


    22. After cleaning up he towel dried


    23. ’ I started, hearing him coming along the hall from the bathroom where he has been cleaning up


    24. This news, tragic for others, makes the price to be paid for the shirt in the white plastic dry cleaning bag by the door seem trivial


    25. Fired by her rediscovered domesticity, she dug around in the cupboard and found cleaning materials, spending several satisfying hours cleaning the sitting room and putting it straight, and then attacking the bedrooms one at a time


    26. Pausing in her work of cleaning the men’s bathroom, she closed her eyes and tried to access the house … nothing


    27. She fills the kettle as he scrubs the grass stains off his hands at the sink and chats on about the cleaning she has been doing


    28. A real rich man would also use fine furs during, but the cleaning staff and the wear were beyond his cash flow, and she understood that


    29. be cleaning his pants out instead of shoveling applesauce into his mouth


    30. Cleaning things up

    31. When he was tall enough to see over the counter in the hardware store he was given new chores: counting and recording stock on shelves once a week, restocking, cleaning the shopfront windows and the countertops


    32. “I told her the outhouse was needing maintenance and cleaning


    33. It was while she was cleaning her teeth in the bathroom, her mind busy with mentally sorting out what they could take and what they would have to leave behind, that she had heard the doors to the sitting room clatter


    34. cleaning up the needle-infested house and then getting it in livable order


    35. cleaning crew and that took up a lot of their time


    36. them out of the students’ hands and cleaning them off the floor


    37. He nodded approvingly as he passed a woman giving some serious cleaning to a floor


    38. fixed it up, supposedly cleaning the mud vein out


    39. it was over a little thing like I missed a crumb when cleaning the floor; sometimes


    40. In order to keep us fed and clothed, Mum had taken cleaning jobs and, occasionally, something better paid turned up, but I know it was hard for her keeping things going

    41. Looks as though you’re going to have the day to myself tomorrow – maybe you could catch up on the cleaning and deal with the washing; don’t know how you stand the excitement


    42. The whole border could do with a serious dig over … maybe when you’ve finished the cleaning


    43. ‘Have you put the washing machine on? Give it five minutes to fill then you can have your showers – any chance you two could see to the cleaning of the bathroom when you have finished?’


    44. industrial cleaning agent the district had recently purchased


    45. “I found some love letters from his girlfriend when I was cleaning out his


    46. He was cleaning the hooves of a recently stabled mare ridden into town by an annual visitor at the opening of the summer season


    47. “You doing more than just cleaning for Chatterling or what?” I said with a


    48. “This Woman, I promised my hand in Marriage if she would give me all the planets she owned! Now she’s an underpaid grunt who spends the rest of her life cleaning up the eternally toxic clusters of Klept-058!” Olorhleng said proudly


    49. he rubbed on his head and hair, with the motion of a cat cleaning its face with its


    50. When they’d finished refilling each stall with fresh straw, they moved on to cleaning up her milking facility, so it would be ready to start operations the next week














































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    Synonyms for "cleaning"

    cleaning cleansing cleanup

    "cleaning" definitions

    the act of making something clean