mopping

Example Sentences

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For Katya, a professional events organiser, the parties have stopped - and her world and life have been disrupted following the raid, trial and community service spent mopping hospital floors.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Voting trends show the BJP mopping up more than 44% of the vote this time.

From BBC • May 4, 2026

Willy might as well be delivering newspapers or mopping the kitchen floor, so disconnected are his gestures.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

With U.S. warships that once patrolled the strait now deployed chasing drug boats in the Caribbean and mopping up Inuit resistance on Greenland’s coasts, Taipei quickly capitulated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Both times, Enrique wins his release by sweeping and mopping.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario