Sentence examples for cleaners by from inspiring English sources

If a local council had done this, it would be taken to the cleaners by the district auditor.

When he bowled in the closing overs at Brisbane a week earlier he was taken to the cleaners by James Faulkner.

Remoras feed on the leavings of their hosts' meals or, in some instances, act as cleaners by eating the external parasites of their transporters.

Most states can be, and frequently are, taken to the cleaners by the privateers, as are some of the world's biggest commercial companies.

In a compromise, the committee approved the proposal to reduce the number of cleaners by 3percentt, for a saving of $3.6 million.

It brings together David Dupuis's drawings of spoorlike forms, the pattern-rich gouaches of Bruce Pearson and a rainbow-hued net made of pipe cleaners by Lucky DeBellevue.

The target is to make them 25% cleaner by 2015.

Cram, a carpet cleaner by trade, suspected a prank.

A 32-ounce bottle of Fantastik cleaner, by contrast, costs $2.89.

Efforts to make coal cleaner by injecting its CO2 emissions into the ground show little sign of becoming cost-effective, despite subsidies.

Patented in the early 1880s by a London physician, Dr J Mortimer Granville, it predated the invention of the electric iron and the vacuum cleaner by a good decade.