scrubbed

Example Sentences

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He stank of horses and left muddy boot prints on the floors that poor Svetlana had so recently scrubbed.

From Literature

“I have been in the most malodorous surroundings imaginable and feel the need to be thoroughly scrubbed.”

From Literature

Three candidates were scrubbed off the ballot paper on the grounds that they did not fulfil all the necessary conditions, the electoral body's chair, Jean-Pierre Ouaboue said.

From Barron's

Steam that passes through the torus is scrubbed of most of its radioactive isotopes before it leaves the building, a vast improvement over allowing the steam to enter the environment without any intervention.

From Literature

The city has successfully deleted the night before, scrubbed it clean with unseen hands.

From Salon