The phrase "sweeping machine" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a machine designed to clean floors. For example, "The janitor used a sweeping machine to clean the floors in the hallway."
Walking in four lines across a no man's land of thistles, wild flowers, self-sown mustard and wheat, the men of the 15th slowly advanced into sweeping machine gun fire and artillery.
Until then he can take pleasure in his other triumphs: an Ives Johnson Sweeping Machine patented in 1857, a 1940s Electrolux that looks like something Buck Rogers could fly to the moon and a pre-electric vacuum donated by an arms dealer who had mistaken it for a bazooka.
11 Job rotation between collecting bags, sweeping streets and driving a sweeping machine.
"I went through that thing a number of times and only got a fast return on my fear once, a too classic hot landing with the heat coming from the trees about 300 yards away, sweeping machine-gun fire that sent men head down into swampy water, running on their hands and knees towards the grass where it wasn't blown flat by the rotor blades, not much to be running for but better than nothing".
Charles Armstrong was set up in business by the presentation of "two sets of sweeping machines capable of reaching the tops of the highest chimneys built".
There were blocks where the melting snow exposed a discarded coffee cup or two, along with evidence that dogs had made their rounds in the snow, even if the street sweeping machines had not.
Armed with petitions signed by people tired of moving their cars to make way for street sweeping machines, Community Board 6 lobbied for years to persuade the city's Department of Sanitation to reduce the number of cleaning days.
(One resident proposed an alternate theory: that the neighborhood was no longer plagued by the mounds of trash left behind by the white, whirring sweeping machines).
And at least one of the feared consequences — that trash, not sucked up by the white, whirring sweeping machines, would pile up in the streets — has not come to pass.
To fashion a "Sphere," Aaron Kramer recycled the steel bristles from a big street-sweeping machine, curving, shaping and weaving each into an airy globe.
On Monday, the authorities answered the new tactics by sending a street-sweeping machine with a water nozzle to sprinkle Oleg, who gave only his first name for fear of arrest, and others who sat down.
