Sentence examples for carpet sweeper from inspiring English sources

You need to sweep a wool rug with a carpet sweeper.

I am glad that the carpet sweeper can never erase them.

The tattered cloak worked like a carpet sweeper, its extrusions of wire and gauze picking up whatever nails, fluff and wood shavings were lying about the stage.

He began in 1966 with a rug beater ($1) and a Bissell carpet sweeper ($1.50) found at a Long Island flea market, and he has consulted the yard sale classifieds practically every Saturday since.

CBS dismissed the contestant, a 26-year-old bartender from Bayonne, N.J., Justin Sebik, even though he said he was only joking when, during a playful moment while kissing and hugging the woman, he suggested that he might crack her on the head with a carpet sweeper and then held the knife to her throat.

Rather than thinking "What do I need to do next?" consider "How can I involve the residents in what I am about to do?" Take a typical day for Daphne: she works alongside housekeeping staff using a carpet sweeper and helps deliver the laundry, she likes to water the plants and visits another resident in the afternoons to sit and hold hands.

We have seen streamlining applied to carpet sweepers, chocolate-coating added to laxatives, seltzer water infused with bicarbonate of soda, dental floss impregnated with peppermint.

But the clothes -- tops with trumpet sleeves, trashed-up skinny jeans that fanned out over high heels like carpet sweepers -- were not distinguishable from those of so many other designers of similar mind.

A chart illustrates the carpet-sweeper gap.

"When the first robot carpet-sweeper sucks up a baby, who will be to blame?" asks John Hallam, a professor at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.

Between 1987 and 1998 they were A Fatal Inversion (a Gold Dagger winner), The House of Stairs, Gallowglass, King Solomon's Carpet, Asta's Book, No Night Is Too Long and The Chimney Sweeper's Boy (1998).