scrubbing

Example Sentences

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It’s a scrubbing of the past, an act of forgetting.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

But I’d say seven to ten minutes of my 15-minute reset is, almost always, spent sudsing and scrubbing.

From Salon • May 5, 2026

A common industrial approach, aqueous amine scrubbing, requires heating large amounts of liquid to temperatures above 100 °C to release the captured CO2 and reuse the solution.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2026

From the age of 10, Amina has been scrubbing, sweeping and cooking in a middle-class home in Pakistan's megacity of Karachi.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

Then she turned and went into the house, and when I went in a minute later she was calmly scrubbing some beets.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier