How to Use sweeper in a Sentence

sweeper

noun
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  • Just wrap it around the head of the sweeper and secure it.
    — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
  • The Guardians have been the sweeper or the sweepee in their last six series.
    — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 3 May 2022
  • The city has arranged for a street sweeper to clear the bike lane.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Dec. 2021
  • Morten Olsen was the sweeper then, and went on to coach the Danish team for 15 years.
    — Michelle Kaufman, miamiherald, 31 May 2018
  • Spencer Torkelson hit a first-pitch sweeper at the top of the strike zone to right field.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2023
  • By Samira Ahmed Babr woke at dawn to the muezzin’s call and the swoosh swoosh of street sweepers.
    — Veronica Chambers, New York Times, 28 June 2019
  • Who needs a street sweeper when Jennifer Lawrence is out on the town?
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 26 June 2024
  • Just sending a sweeper out there won’t do much good because the bulk of the trash is stuck in the ivy.
    — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Almonte hit Friedl on the back knee with an 84-mph sweeper to force in a run that made it 5-2.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2023
  • Meanwhile the skip, the team captain, barks out orders to the sweepers.
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 6 Feb. 2018
  • My plan for the marathon is to finish it before the sweeper bus comes and drives me to the finish line.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The city’s vehicular street sweepers can’t get to the curbs due to all the posts now in the roadways.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
  • The fried wonton chips served warm alongside each were a sweeper of a hit among my crew.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • He was forced into the German army and sent to the Eastern front as a land-mine sweeper.
    — WSJ, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Sabol tagged Lorenzen's sweeper at the top of the strike zone for a 379-foot home run to right-center field in the second.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2023
  • At the back of the sweeper is a large rotating broom, like an oversized paint roller.
    — Washington Post, 12 June 2021
  • The city workers come in pretty early with the dump trucks and street sweepers.
    — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Koeman, the sweeper with a sniper's eye for long-range goals, steps forward.
    — Aimee Lewis, CNN, 19 May 2017
  • And the city has employed local toughs as street sweepers.
    — Seth Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 20 Aug. 2014
  • His new teams reinforced the approach, pushing for the sweeper to be a pitch that lived in the strike zone.
    — Nathan Ruiz, Baltimore Sun, 19 July 2023
  • In China, a Tesla slammed into the back of a street sweeper.
    — Christopher Cox, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The sweeper's dustbin can hold up to 12.5 ounces of crud, and with a push of a button can be emptied when full.
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 2 Feb. 2023
  • With roughly 100 lane miles in Lakewood, the street sweepers are busy, running eight months out of the year.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Few things can jolt urban dwellers out of bed faster than the sound of the street sweeper, with the tow truck surely nearby.
    — John Hilliard, BostonGlobe.com, 9 May 2023
  • Floor dusters and sweepers are great for collecting dust and dirt from your floors.
    — Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 30 May 2024
  • By 10:48, the radio call was for people on a street sweeper at Broad and Oregon.
    — Laura McCrystal, Philly.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 24 July 2017
  • Tovar led off the sixth with his first homer of the day, jumping on starter Kyle Gibson’s 2-0 sweeper.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 8 June 2024
  • The nearby city of Lewisburg sent a street sweeper to clean Rainelle’s streets, once piled high with debris.
    — John Raby, The Seattle Times, 18 June 2017
  • Treinen escaped a second-and-third, one-out jam in the fifth by striking out Daniel Schneemann with an 84-mph sweeper and Thomas with an 85-mph sweeper.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2024

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