Sentence examples for to scrubbing from inspiring English sources

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to scrubbing

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To rub hard; to wash with rubbing; usually, to rub with a wet brush, or with something coarse or rough, for the purpose of cleaning or brightening; as, to scrub a floor, a doorplate.

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Who wants to go back to scrubbing things with soap, or telephones on the wall?

Then, with no acknowledgement of this interruption, she would go back, serenely, to scrubbing the floor.

Nearly everything required in domestic life from beds to scrubbing brushes is made from bamboo.

"I went from a highfalutin position to scrubbing the floors," Ms. Anderson said.

So Mr. Willimon, one of the play's four directors and de facto producers, grabbed a couple of people, some water and soap and brushes, and got to scrubbing.

She did everything at the cafe, from making gumbo to scrubbing the floors and singing torch songs, while still putting in a full day as a magistrate.

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Higgs: something to scrub for.

They knelt in muck to scrub floors.

Indians they are made to scrub toilets.

"So I told him to scrub up.

Mr. Wehrli has no plans to scrub it off.

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