Use cleaning in a sentence
Sentences starting with cleaning
- Cleaning the pots and pans, and standing anxious at the doorway staring through a sunbonnet for your lord and master. [9]
More example sentences with the word cleaning in them
- Pierre, without a word, began cleaning his rifle, while Macavoy smoked, and sat looking into the distance, surveying the sweet warmth and light. [11]
- If you wear white clothes you are clean, and your cleaning bill gets so heavy that you have to take care. [5]
- He said it wanted cleaning and oiling, besides regulating--come in a week. [5]
- In another corner two old bees are languidly fighting, or cleaning themselves, or feeding one another, without themselves knowing whether they do it with friendly or hostile intent. [2]
- In an hour's time he came back to find me cleaning his accoutrements by the fire. [9]
- Some were painting themselves, others cleaning their rifles and sharpening their scalping knives. [9]
- I was cleaning the long rifle,--a labor I loved,--when suddenly I looked up, startled to see a man standing in front of me. [9]
- It has turned the corner after cleaning $50,000 a year for three consecutive years, and piling every cent of it into one book--Library of American Literature--and from next January onward it will resume dividends. [5]
- Then he took some ashes from his cigar, wetted his finger, and thus ingeniously removed all appearance of newness from the hole he had made, carefully cleaning up the chips and putting them in his pocket. [9]
- He did not notice that one of his crew abaft near the wheel was watching him closely, while creeping along the railing on the pretence of cleaning it. [11]
- Their city had no charter; it had no municipal government; it could levy no taxes for drainage, water-supply, paving, cleaning, sanitation, policing. [5]
- A bevy of men were kept busy cleaning the round shot of rust, and there was not a man on the ship who did not look with pride at the guns, in their paint of grey-blue steel, with a scarlet band round the muzzle. [11]
- She could not, like her mother, find a silly refuge in shining dishes, in cleaning pots and pans, or sit idle, vacant-minded, for long hours in a spotless kitchen. [9]
- Had she carried her nursing infant, perhaps she might have succeeded better, but even the most compassionate housewives either turned her from their doors or offered her work at the wash-tub, or in cleaning or gardening. [10]
- Hannah, lingering over her morning task of cleaning, did not seem to notice the act. [9]
- In her absence he invariably unpacked and used it, and of course Cynthia at once set herself to cleaning and packing it again. [9]
- Mrs. Mulhaus had got a job of cleaning that day; that would be fifty cents. [4]
- At dusk that evening I sat on the back door-step, by the orchard, cleaning his rifle. [9]
- They're sweeping the dirt out of France; they're cleaning the dark places; they're whitewashing Versailles and sawdusting the Tuileries; they're purging the aristocratic guts of France; they're starting for the world a reformation which will make it clean. [11]
- The only acute differences they had were upon two points--the cleaning of the medicine bottles and surgical instruments, and the looting. [11]
- Fastidious people who did not read it gave it a bad name, not recognizing the classic and heroic attitude of those engaged in pitchforking up and turning over the muck of the Augean stables under the pretense of cleaning them. [4]
- By daybreak her coal was aboard, then came cleaning up, and preparations to depart. [11]
- Sleepy servants were cleaning up, but Fox vowed that they should bring us yet another bottle before going home. [9]
- He had to bake his own bread, and do his own cooking, washing, cleaning, and gardening. [11]
- She is old and sensitive, and she doesn't like to see her son doing the dirty work every man must do some time or other, when there's street cleaning to be done. [11]
- Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it. [2]
- The giant had a broom, and was cleaning up and fixing around, diligently. [5]
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