sweepings

Example Sentences

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In a statement Banksy jokes: "While the unauthorised Banksy shows might look like sweepings from my studio floor, CUT & RUN really is the actual sweepings from my studio floor."

From BBC

It’s peanut sweepings, as Homer Simpson would say.

From Washington Post

The transportation lines advertised America as a land flowing with milk and honey, and the European governments took the opportunity to unload upon careless, wealthy, and hospitable America the sweepings of their jails and asylums.

From Salon

But sweepings demands for a more equitable society were left for later.

From Los Angeles Times

The first time I tried it, I thought it might have been made with rotten fruit and a tincture of sweepings from the floor of a health food store.

From New York Times