Sentence examples for sweep a floor from inspiring English sources

When you sweep a floor, make sure you do a good job, or you'll marry a bald man.

Sometimes she does something non-medical that needs to be done, which is the hospice way — she might sweep a floor, she might heat up dinner.

Maybe Cliff Lee will sweep a floor and become president, to pitch no hitters against China!

If you go into overwhelm, reach for something even easier that does not elicit the fight or flight response: put the cap on the toothpaste, turn out lights, sweep a floor.

Never sweep a floor and sweep your pile onto a rug and vacuum it up.

Scenes have extended long past the expected cutaway point, as when a bar employee swept a floor — and swept and swept — for two and a half minutes.

If you sweep a kitchen floor, for instance, where do you put the bits you sweep up, if not in the bin?

(He has often said that he considers his first art experience to be seeing the clown Emmett Kelly performing his signature old-fashioned projection piece, in which he labored to sweep a spotlight off the floor).

If it needs sweeping she'll sweep the floor.

On Hildegard Bechtler's atmospherically lit sets, we see a sponge-cake being made, a floor being swept, a tin bath being arduously filled.

Three works, depicting a scene from "The Wizard of Oz" ("the witch bade her clean the kettles and sweep the floor"), provide a glimpse of the creative process: a loosely brushed preparatory sketch in watercolors, a line pencil drawing on tracing paper, and the finished watercolor image.