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

Quite the contrary: He was a co-founder of IRobot, the maker of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, though he stepped down as the company’s chief technology officer in 2008 and left its board in 2011.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

"We found that increasing Sox9 expression triggered astrocytes to ingest more amyloid plaques, clearing them from the brain like a vacuum cleaner," Deneen said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 23, 2025

Our privilege smacked of evil and mystery whereas theirs came in recognizable panty hose packages and candy wrappers and vacuum cleaner bags and Kleenex boxes.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez