How To Use Dustpan In A Sentence
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Nothing kills the festive spirit as much as someone whisking under your feet with a dustpan and brush, folding up wrapping paper and tutting about all the pine needles.
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Dongying sag is a dustpan shape one with very abundant oil and gas.
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We called in at a discount store on the way home but we weren't really in the mood for shopping and nothing there appealed to us except a dustpan and brush for sweeping up all those cat hairs.
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Desirée stifled a laugh as she swept the candles and bits of wax into a dustpan.
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Advertisements, that wrought a revolution in that department of literature, my uncle was brought to realise not only the lost history, but also the enormous field for invention and enterprise that lurked among the little articles, the dustpans and mincers, the mousetraps and carpet-sweepers that fringe the shops of the oilman and domestic ironmonger.
Tono Bungay
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They have no support workers to collect the rubbish that they gather; instead they carry their full dustpans across the busy streets to empty them in the nearest dustbins.
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I grabbed my dustpan and broom, swept him in, and deposited him in the trash.
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You will never look at the humble dustpan and brush in quite the same way again.
Times, Sunday Times
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I opted for this title because, in the face of tragedy, Olivia reached for her dustpan
Carolyn Wall - An interview with author
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I got on the train, and it lingered long enough for me to watch two of the sweepy-uppy guys with the dustpans and brushes on long handles to sweep round him.
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I've been hit with slippers, with a dustpan, with a switch cut from the cherry tree in our backyard.
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Work & Family Mailbox Sue Shellenbarger answers readers' questions After their parents' deaths about 20 years ago, the two brothers disagreed on who would get a Norwegian broom and brass dustpan hand-crafted by their grandfather.
Happy (Awkward) Holidays
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The mats are paired with two black plastic dustpans in search of a referent.
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Taking a broom and dustpan from a narrow closet, Joe walked around the bar and began sweeping Bobby's broken glass off the floor.
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The broom is best used in conjunction with a dustpan.
Times, Sunday Times
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Morgan sweeps the last piece of china into the dustpan and heads towards the kitchen.
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Hold on to your cammies and steelheads, ladies and gents … looks like we got ourselves another Omar the feather duster. #2 with a dustpan. bob h says:
Matthew Yglesias » More Failure for Obama’s Law Enforcement Approach to Terrorism
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Then he got a dustpan and brush, and swept the whole mess up.
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Rico was using the broom and dustpan and Hector followed behind slowly with the mop and bucket.
Agape
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Now, with the dustpan and brush in her hands and a furious, cold-eyed expression on her face, my mother explained that she was about to punish me again.
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Hold on to your cammies and steelheads, ladies and gents … looks like we got ourselves another Omar the feather duster. #2 with a dustpan. bob h says:
Matthew Yglesias » More Failure for Obama’s Law Enforcement Approach to Terrorism
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When I had finally gotten out of the stuffy room a large mess and a broom, dustpan and garbage bin were waiting for me.
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This year, without making a conscious decision, I've been sweeping ants carefully into dustpans and removing them to the back yard.
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I gave up counting the number of times I got up in the morning with dustpan and brush to sweep the broken glass from the passenger seat.
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He grimaced as he noted the shattered glass by the mantelpiece, and moved to the kitchen to find a dustpan and brush.
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After 10 minutes of pointed bashing about with a dustpan and brush, the nice guy next door came in.
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I forgot the word "dustpan" because I needed to get one and so I wrote "broom thingie" on my shopping list
Miss-k2 Diary Entry
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Residents of the hall closet - feather dusters, fly swatters and dustpans - all wait their turn to perform.
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Hence, two people of brothers take broom and dustpan, arriving veranda uping to sweep sunlight.
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Shuffling penitentially on your knees, bending and scraping with dustpan and brush while vicious pine needles perforate your kneecaps...it's almost enough to make you feel like Christmas might, in a twisted way, be the descendent of some sort of primitive religious festival.
After the Binge Must Come the Purge
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She slid open the doors of her kitchen and walked into it once more grabbing the dustpan and brush once more.
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As they have done for the past 20 years, Joe will be wrapping the broom and dustpan this month at his Greensboro, N.C., home, and sending them off to Harry to use at his house in Nags Head, N.C. Next year, Joe gets them back.
Happy (Awkward) Holidays
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Bending, Von swept the pieces of dark glass into the plastic dustpan.
Etched in Bone
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‘It isn't funny,’ I hissed, then walked into the broom cupboard to find a dustpan and brush.
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The concrete steps didn't look too bad when I started, but by the time I was done, my dustpan held a dust bunny that was truly frightening.
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Same idea with little brush and dustpan (I ended up with 3 sets, each one with name of the place they must to go back to).
La question mille francs - French Word-A-Day
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We had to sweep it up into a dustpan and then wash the floor down.
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The distribution of the system is not mainly controlled by the local dustpan - like sags.
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He used a dustpan and brush and put it in a container.
The Sun
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The half-hearted attempt to clean up with dustpan and brush did little more than reposition them.
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Ron Vecchio , who runs a Long Island cleanup business called Minesweepers, agrees that a sweep-through with the old-school shovel and long-handled dustpan is indispensable, even though his company uses backpack blowers to try and get the job done faster.
Down and Dirty: Cleaning After Geese
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The room still smelled faintly of the pizza that had been served that afternoon during lunch, and two janitors walked around with their brooms and dustpans sweeping up wrappers and discarded pieces of food from the floors.
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The half-hearted attempt to clean up with dustpan and brush did little more than reposition them.
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Have you got a dustpan and brush?
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I looked up suspiciously, a reasonably unplucked red-brown eyebrow poised in an unnatural position, dustpan and broom frozen in place resting on the top of the tarmac. ‘What's the catch?’
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Young men sweep piles of discarded petals, stems and leaves into gigantic metal dustpans, while others move stacks of boxes back and forth on wide trolleys.
