unswept
Example Sentences
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I find that I am grossed out by things in her home that did not used to bother me: unswept floors, mildew in the shower, pet hair on the sofa and beds, etc.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2018
But for reasons that I’ll perhaps never understand completely, I cannot abide an unswept floor.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2014
Mackage seems synthetic and intergalactic; Fjallraven is natural and earthbound, with dried leaves lying unswept, perhaps by design, at the entrance.
From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2012
Once on the roof, amid unswept gutters and frosty tiles, Nigel's lines quickly got posher and more significant, as if he was drunk on family tradition.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 2, 2011
But now the village was unswept, the water polluted, and the countryside littered with plastic bags and wrappers.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
