Sentence examples for cleaner thing from inspiring English sources

But now … well, for many, Theresa seems to have become, relatively, the cleaner thing.

In a column about domestic slapdashery, the great Katharine Whitehorn once asked: "Have you ever taken anything out of the dirty-clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?" There is something of this to Theresa May's leadership bid.

In her famous 1963 essay Sluts, Katharine Whitehorn described sluts as women who fish their clothes "back out of the dirty clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing," and spend their money "at the beginning of the month like drunken sailors".

The celebration of sluts – in the sense of those slightly impatient of conventions of feminine daintiness – was dedicated to "all those who have ever changed their stockings in a taxi, brushed their hair with someone else's nailbrush or safety pinned a hem" and particularly to anyone who had "taken anything back out of the dirty-clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing".

"I like machine-age things, cleaner things" that aren't "too embellished".

Without that, the long-term future of coal is continuing decline and its replacement by cleaner things.

It looks like one of those automated vacuum cleaner things that you see in the kitchens of rich people's houses on the TV, when you're channel hopping and end up on ITV2 because you hate yourself.

It tasted "a little bit like a house-cleaner thing".

Artists create cut-out characters from materials like fabric, paper or pipe-cleaners, things children recognize.

No doubt they had been hoping to scoop up Mr. Caruana's kings and queens like a vacuum cleaner, but things did not look good for them.

He talked of letting subway cleaners do things like changing lightbulbs and painting over graffiti.