12 Verbs to Use for the Word sweepings

Cordelia Running Bird gave her broom a sudden push and sent the sweepings flying backward in a cloud.

While our young mate was getting the boat ready, therefore, Bob collected his tools, provided himself with a bucket, passed the half-barrel, into which Mark had thrown the sweepings of the decks, into the dingui, and descended himself and took the sculls.

O'Flynn impulsively ran one lone hand over the place where the gold-heap had lain, his other hand held ready at the table's edge to catch any sweepings.

But it was not like her to give up, when once she had set her hand to anything; so she finished the sweeping, then fled outside to let the dust blow away from her face and hair while the thick atmosphere in the room she had left cleared enough to admit of the next set of operations.

They must have given us the very sweepings of the hold.

When this was done, he sent down the bucket, and hauled up the sweepings of the deck, which Bob had ready for him, below.

"Well, I reckon we kin about call the thing fixed," said Señor Brown, with a large wave of the hand, suggesting a sweeping away of all trivial details.

It was said of Eliphalet Nott at Union College, that he "took the sweepings of other colleges and sent them back to society pure gold."

Next she undertook the sweeping of the floor, saying to herselfand they heard the words"It looks as if it hadna been swept for seven years."

Hannah Straight Tree did not hunt the dustpan, but with perseverance worthy of a better cause, she brushed the sweepings from her floor and stairs upon a ragged palm-leaf fan which she discovered in a corner, and, dropping them into the scrub-pail, took them out of doors.

the Present like a strung harp stands Waiting the sweeping of prophetic hands, To send its living music, loud and fleet, Careering calmly through unnumber'd lands.

They carry the sweepings and ashes in baskets or bowls to the fields and leave them there.

12 Verbs to Use for the Word  sweepings