vacuum cleaner

NOUN

carpet sweeper

Synonyms

WEAK

Hoover vacuum sweeper

Example Sentences

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Moulding their own plastic and automated robotic production sucks power like, well a vacuum cleaner.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Could this year’s hottest Valentine’s Day gift be…a vacuum cleaner?

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

The maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner, iRobot, filed for bankruptcy Sunday after 35 years in business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Cannes Grand Prix winner opens with a haunted vacuum cleaner.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

But the vacuum cleaner did it faster and better, and soon Mrs. Jones was the envy of all the other housewives in town—so they bought vacuum cleaners, too.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien