Sentence examples for i was sweeping from inspiring English sources

"I was sweeping streets in Waterford," McGrath remembers, "and I did that for three years.

I was sweeping the yard when I heard shouts coming from the road.

I was sweeping the floors at WAHR when one day the DJ quit, I filled in for him and took over.

I used to sit in my grandmother's home beauty shop and listen to all the women while I was sweeping up hair.

"I had no clue that my parents were unhappy with each other until I was sweeping up cornichons and hard salami and radishes off the kitchen floor" is the opening line of a chapter chronicling her parents' breakup.

There was another time where I was sweeping the floors, near a table by two customers.

But I still feel ashamed that at my age, I am sweeping and cleaning toilets.

And I'm sweeping up after him, after all the damage he's done".

Moments later I'm sweeping the hair off the floor, and figuring out how many shampoos it would take before I could have my own Knightsbridge salon.

Come look at my floor, And see what's become of the missing seashore -- I'm sweeping it back to the beach.

"Here I am, young and pretty/Still I'm sweeping up the floor again," sings the Oregon hipster Bean (Julie Fitzpatrick) in the opening of the short musical "Co-Op".