What is "vacuuming"

Usage examples of "vacuuming".

Perhaps fifty men and women were at work, tacking up curtains, vacuuming carpets, fixing the electricity, but no one was employed on the essentials--the big cement mixers, the drills, the ironwork that lay about behind the hotel like the abandoned toys of a giant.

Perhaps fifty men and women were at work, tacking up curtains, vacuuming carpets, fixing the electricity, but no one was employed on the essentialsthe big cement mixers, the drills, the ironwork that lay about behind the hotel like the abandoned toys of a giant.

A crew of cleaners started vacuuming the office where he'd met with Queek and the hallway the Lizard and his interpreter had used coming to and going from that office.