Examples of use of sweepings
1. And the programme makers have, for the present series, scoured the sweepings of society.
2. Bring on the fallopian tube–cutters, prevent the feckless sweepings of the human race from propagating yet more of these feeble souls.
3. Heavy rain has compacted bare soil between fodder beet and washed off shards of china and glass, remnants of the street sweepings from Plymouth, brought upriver a century ago and used as fertiliser.
4. Twenty carts, including four dust carts (in the early part of the morning), are employed in removing the sweepings, so that with the 20 carters thus employed, and with one grid–opener for the whole township, and with nine yardsmen (the same number as were employed during Mr.
5. He faced two problems even before he and his '7 dogs reached the Bay of Whales, on the Ross Ice Shelf, early in 1'2'. The first was that the 40 tons of dog food was found to contain floor sweepings such as nails and glass, and so while stopping over in New Zealand Vaughan spent three weeks making up replacement feed, mixing it at night in a chocolate factory.