Sentence examples for wipe the ground from inspiring English sources
Removing his shirt, he makes of it a prayer mat, a bandage, a gun, a banner, a handkerchief, a rag to wipe the ground, a rock to throw.
We moved closer to the TV as it filled with images of the vortex wiping the ground clean, swallowing barns, trees, cars and trucks.
At last she was sated, spread out on a rickety little bench as a tattered servant boy with a rag wiped the ground underneath it.
Spray/soak more degreaser in a rag and (if possible, with the rear wheel off the ground) wipe the chain as hard as you can and rotate the wheel so that all of the chain is clean.
Her speed winds down until she offers a few soft taps and then just strokes a shoe on the ground to wipe the phrase into nothing.
Vanda Grabowski from Koala Action Inc said land clearing was akin to a person having every house in their suburb "wiped to the ground" while they were at work.
It's like lavi men, siye atè, washing your hands only to wipe them on the ground.
At his peak, when he took his bowling into the red zone, his right knuckle would graze the ground, so that he wiped the dust from it.
The thrush often uses a favourite stone as an "anvil" on which to break the shell of the snail before extracting the soft body and invariably wiping it on the ground before consumption.
Both males and females give off a strong, musky odour during the mating season, by turning their cloacas inside out and wiping them on the ground, secreting a glossly liquid believed to be an aphrodisiac.
