scrub
Example Sentences
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She is so busy scrubbing coffee cups and baby butts that she forgets that most precious piece of metal, her wedding ring.
From Salon
As a young father, Craig moved his family to the Northern Territories of Australia, where he wrangled “scrub bulls and buffalo” that had escaped from herds and needed to be sent to market.
It’s a meticulously choreographed exercise designed to quickly scrub the streets clean of holiday cheer.
Workers are exposed to the street as they scrub, wax and buff the parade of vehicles that streams in between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m., seven days a week.
From Los Angeles Times
Capote perfectly captures the sacramental quality of the holiday—how, through the exhaustive labor of polishing and scrubbing, we consecrate the routine rooms of daily existence into a sanctuary for celebration.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
