scrub
Example Sentences
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Those comments were also scrubbed from social media.
In the morning my face looked scrubbed, like I’d washed it with steel wool.
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Some platinum is used in jewelry, but almost half of platinum’s demand, and nearly 85% of palladium’s use, is for vehicle catalysts to scrub emissions.
Marco Rossi was in the third ring, hosing down an elephant and scrubbing her wrinkled gray skin with a long-handled deck brush.
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His mother was scrubbing the bathtub and picking up all the boats that Sam had been sailing during his bath.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.