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vacuum cleaner

noun as in carpet sweeper

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Other miniature marvels inside the structure include a tiny grand piano, the Crown Jewels and a 1920s-era vacuum cleaner.

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"I wasn't brought up to know how to tidy, I didn't even know how to put the vacuum cleaner on," she says.

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The couple had been packing up the last of their belongings and she was still running the vacuum cleaner around when National Highways contractors arrived.

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As well as the stagehands, there are people responsible for positioning lights and setting pyrotechnics; and 10 cleaners who sweep the stage with mops and vacuum cleaners between every performance.

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After the spill, the indictment says, the SUV driver tried to use a vacuum cleaner at Kulikoff’s car wash to clean the spill.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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