sweeper

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• It's as if my friend's afraid to be away from her for any length of time outside of work, even to move her car across the street for the street sweeper.

• The transportation staff had moved some of the snow plows, pick-up trucks, street sweepers and other pieces of equipment normally stored in the garage to make room for the clinic.

• Then you have these mechanical sweepers that basically sweep all the nuts off the ground and into windrows, about three feet wide, all in a big, long line on both sides of each tree.

• A street sweeper was caught in the crossfire as a gunman fired at the officer, fatally wounding her in the back.

• At a pitch I could be a tolerable road-sweeper or an inefficient gardener or even a tenth-rate farm hand.

• His signature blue jacket is a Parisian street sweeper's smock purchased on his semi-annual trips to Paris.

• Mr. King and Mr. Lewis walking together in Birmingham, a chimney sweeper and his boy passed them.

• A curious incident: during the night a Fleet-sweeper tied up alongside, full of wounded, chiefly Australians.

• A beau highwayman and a miserable chimney sweeper were to be hanged together at Newgate for their respective deserts.

• His back turned toward me, head bent, he hurriedly plies the broom with the quick, short stroke of the one-armed sweeper.

• I say, very nearly knocking down the old sweeper who was hobbling away as fast as posibil.