Sentence examples for the dustpan from inspiring English sources
noun
A flat scoop with a short handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.
If I made a mistake, they'd beat me with whatever was lying around — a broom, the dustpan".
Bits that get past the dustpan clatter by the impeller with a clang that can be felt throughout the ship.
The dustpan, however, was curiously clean – so clean that I suddenly realised that it, too, was probably decorative.
It was a combination dustpan and candleholder, which the candle stuck in the socket of the dustpan.
Joe Paterno has begun sweeping up a shattered football season, but he sees luster in some of the shards in the dustpan.
Window-cleaning, cupboard-cleaning, oven-cleaning, vacuuming (if you were lucky enough to have one – otherwise it was the dustpan and brush all the way up the stairs).
On this day, the operators had to raise the dustpan-shaped intake head every half-hour or so to clear a bit of cable or scrap.
A drive-in net may be one of those already mentioned or may be specially made, such as the dustpan-shaped stationary gear used in some fisheries in South Asia.
Some of the equipment issued by the district is faulty, Ms. Gardner said; for example, the brooms "don't sweep very well" and the "dust just goes under" the dustpans.
"Where the heck is that dustpan?" said the witch, Lady Rhea, 60, a Wiccan high priestess who was pulling off a nearly magical level of multitasking: drinking coffee, smoking thin Capri cigarettes and conducting a phone conversation while sweeping.
Eventually he stopped and swept up their little carcasses and saw them in the metal dustpan and threw them out into the night.
