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vacuum cleaners

n. (vacuum cleaner English)

Usage examples of "vacuum cleaners".

They were like vacuum cleaners, sucking every signal onto their recorders, with the intercept operators not having a clue as to what the activity represented.

When we add to this the additional torments of bedbugs and body lice, we can only surmise that life before washing machines and vacuum cleaners was indeed full of itching and scratching.

Just that month Consumer Reports, having surveyed thousands of great Americans about psychotherapy in much the same way they surveyed them about vacuum cleaners, announced that talk therapy worked--worked whether or not drugs also were given, eat your heart out, Win--and the more therapy, the better it worked.

He insisted he was just working his butt off selling those fancy vacuum cleaners and was exhausted by the time he dragged home.

The machine's voice was slight and tinny (speech being only infrequently required of mobile, preprogrammed vacuum cleaners).

A century's-worth of padlocked walk-in freezers, fifty vacuum cleaners charging themselves at a row of numbered stations, rolls of broadloom stacked like logs.

People were going back into their compartments and leaving the corridors clear, but some girls in grey overalls with the state insignia on them were washing down the walls, and others were trundling vacuum cleaners in and out of the compartments nearer the dining car.