clean it up
Example Sentences
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Earlier in March environment secretary Steve Reed called the amount of pollution entering the lake "a disgrace" and pledged to clean it up.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2025
The debris, she said, is “blowing all over Malibu. It’s going into our oceans. We’re poisoning our children as we stand here. So we need to clean it up fast.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2025
As for the plastics being everywhere in the environment, scientists hope to one day clean it up so that other ecosystems do not suffer because of humanity’s pollution.
From Salon • Jan. 2, 2025
"The brain becomes like a teenager's bedroom, accumulating trash, and when you don't clean it up, it becomes uninhabitable."
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
I quench my instinct to clean it up.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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