Example Sentences

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For 45 minutes, a “Q-facial” machine sprayed, vacuumed, exfoliated and hydrated my face, delivering ultrasonic waves at two different depths.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Turn to wet mopping only after you’ve vacuumed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025

If it seems like many of the same series vacuumed up most of the nominations, this is partly why.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2024

Hilton, who had been about to watch his six-year-old son play a baseball game when he received a call, sprayed and vacuumed the bees away.

From BBC • May 1, 2024

As Percy watched, the last particles of Titan essence from Hyperion and Krios were vacuumed into the warrior’s maw.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan