Sentence examples for were working to clean from inspiring English sources

Imagine if all the volunteers on the route were working to clean up the city.

He said communities upstream were working to clean up the contaminated Passaic River, which was the area's main transportation link before the 19th century.

Meanwhile in Moreno Valley, about a dozen homeowners were working to clean up their properties after rock and mudslides sent tons of earth downhill.

Food companies have been working to clean up their act.

Still, lenders are working to clean up their books and whittle down the amount of soured loans, the judges say.

The Department of Homeland Security has been working to clean up the immigration-justice system it inherited from the Bush administration, a sprawling detention-and-deportation operation plagued by overcrowding, mistreatment and shocking medical neglect.

Some of the abandoned military buildings left standing there are contaminated with asbestos, and the site is polluted with other chemicals that the Army Corps of Engineers is working to clean up.

The recent article exploring Wallingford's Oneida Community ("Wallingford's Commune-on-the-Quinnipiac," Aug. 29) referred to the unnamed group that is working to clean up the Quinnipiac and produce a trail guide that points out remnants of the vanished commune.

Overall, it's a difficult situation that a lot of people will be working to clean up for a long time.

I've been working to clean up the old, negative items on my credit report, and it's a little thrill to log in to the app to see the score increase as these changes are made.

But I think it's something baseball is working to clean up.