vacuum cleaner

NOUN

carpet sweeper

Synonyms

WEAK

Hoover vacuum sweeper

Example Sentences

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Could this year’s hottest Valentine’s Day gift be…a vacuum cleaner?

From MarketWatch • Feb. 13, 2026

She purchased with her partner a Dyson vacuum cleaner on sale and bought two pairs of Levi’s jeans.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s Cannes Grand Prix winner opens with a haunted vacuum cleaner.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

On Boxing Day, an edit by Sir James - the billionaire inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner - will consider how the UK could boost its entrepreneurial spirit.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025

Harry listened; a loud and oddly eerie noise was drifting toward them from out of the darkness: a muffled rumbling and sucking sound, as though an immense vacuum cleaner were moving along a riverbed.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling