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
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
But it faces a mammoth task, with polls showing that the Green Party -- newly headed by a charismatic leader 30 years younger than Corbyn -- is mopping up most disaffected lefties.
From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025
Miss Celia spells out her telephone number like a floor- mopping jingle, “Emerson two-sixty-six-oh-nine!”
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
