Sentence examples for clean by hand from inspiring English sources

The removed peel of cork is boiled or steamed to remove soluble tannic acids from it and increase its flexibility, and its rough woody surface is scraped clean by hand.

Each year their seven qvevris are scraped clean by hand with a tool made of folded cherry bark.

Truly anal neatniks may complain that Roomba misses a spot here and there but, hey, that just gives them something to clean by hand – and that's the gift that keeps on giving.

My initial goal was to collect, clean by hand, and donate 100 pairs of shoes by Christmas.

"Every single piece was cleaned by hand," said Violet Mimaki, Shangri La's secretary and estate manager for 22 1/2 years.

Garvey was taken on a tour by the library director, and tells me about the wooden benches, restored and cleaned by hand using a toothbrush.

The "robot" was designed to clean eleven hundred windows on a tank of twenty gallons of water, but sometimes jammed; it was of little use on the corners, and the windows on the top floors were always cleaned by hand.

Meanwhile, the photovoltaic panels outside the city are proving less efficient than expected because of dust storms and haze, which can cut solar insolation by 30% – the panels must be cleaned by hand.

In the queen of the five ballrooms – the Gran Via Salon – the original crystal chandelier was taken down and cleaned by hand, piece by piece, while decorative wall-light sconces have been retained and the gold-leaf revitalised to highlight the heavenly trompe l'oeil clouded ceiling.

When the seeds--about 10,000 per species--arrive, they are cleaned by hand, dried, checked out by x-rays, and stored in sealed containers at -20°C.

Every moving part was cleaned by hand, and the exterior was repainted in its correct colour after the original paintwork was discovered under layers of mould and rust.