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sweep up
Example Sentences
Instead, he was joining other teachers sweeping up material from an early morning fire underneath the stadium bleachers that severely damaged the press box.
His cleaning crew was sweeping up litter from the street while their boss talked and talked and talked.
As she sweeps up broken glass outside her shop, Inna knows her country’s future is in the hands of Americans voting more than 5,000 miles away.
Blackwell’s sons sometimes help out in the studio, sweeping up wood dust and sanding boards.
"That's when I knew there was a pipeline to prison; a pipeline that has spent decades sweeping up and funnelling Māori children from state care to prison."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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