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Usage examples of cleaning.

Rebel broke out the programmer and ran a cleaning pad over the adhesion disks.

The electrical smell of the ship came into his nostrils, a brew of cooking oil, ozone, diesel fuel, cleaning solution, and amines, the perfume of it filling him with nostalgia.

Have we not shivered with cold, all the glowering, gloomy month of May, because, the august front-parlor having undergone the spring cleaning, the andirons were snugly tied up in tissue-paper, and an elegant frill of the same material was trembling before the mouth of the once glowing fireplace?

Since it was already early evening, the warriors had left the armory, but the large cavern was still full of whelps and boys, cleaning up, repairing leathers and harnesses, or raking the sand that covered the floor.

Some assayers advise cleaning by dipping in warm dilute hydrochloric acid followed by washing in water and drying.

Stroker called angrily from behind the bar, and Astel immediately got to her feet and moved behind the bar to start cleaning up and settling down matters for the night.

Our cook is a gentle, avuncular Muslim called Doud whose careful rhythm of prayer and cooking and cleaning washes like a balm from his small inferno behind the dining room and soothes in waves across our house.

She hustled him out of his pile of blankets and set him to sweeping floors, helping in the laundries, and cleaning the various ingenious instruments of lighting that had accumulated in this place over the yearsbrass candlesticks and chamber-sticks, candle-snuffers, wax-jacks, bougie boxes, wick-trimmers, douters, candle-boxes, and lamps.

Mama and my bubbe, Ruchel, worked inside the house, cleaning everything until not a trace of chumatz could be found, except for a small space in the corner of the kitchen where we could still eat until Passover.

Since nearly all of the caravanserai was in a breakdown zone, maintenance machines were disqualified from cleaning the toilets and performing the hundred other tasks of daily housekeeping.

Hendrique was sitting on one of the couchettes methodically cleaning the components of his Desert Eagle automatic with a strip of cloth.

She set to work cleaning, washing and clothing the young beauty, and two or three days after they went to Versailles with the painter to see what could be done.

George Cox was leaning against the wall cleaning his fingernails with a jackknife.

Liquor was a good item for trade, and vodka could also be used for cleaning wounds and degreasing weapons.

She would gladly have traded places and let Dobie finish cleaning the stalls.