She cleans windows and floors and rugs for thirty-five cents an hour.
How can you tell, foolish man, if that regard be any other than he pays to his shoes, or his horse, when he cleans them?
If, when hecleans him, he look the same way as the horse, there is danger that he may be struck in the face with his knee or his hoof.
The man who waits on strangers to the coach, cleans their boots, etc.
The double ploughing which it requires, effectually cleans the ground.
Though in this respect Charlevoix is not so credulous as Padre Ruiz de Montoya and the older writers, he yet repeats the story of the bird that cleans the alligator's teeth, the magic virtues of the tapir's nails, and many others.
The story of the bird that cleans the teeth of alligators is very nearly true -- `Pluvianus aegyptius' has a symbiotic relationship with crocodiles in parts of Africa, and similar relationships exist throughout the natural world.
It burns and cleans them away, and leaves the lover speechless--but approximately honest!
It cleansthe little human soul from the clustered lies in which it has nested itself--from the petty conceits and deceits and cowardices and covert meannesses--and all the things that fly from the tip of the tongue directly the mouth opens.
This not only cleans quickly, but has an excellent softening effect.
This is done by machine, and not only cleans the goods from bloom, dirt and superfluous tan, but also assists in setting out.
It is almost universally believed that when the cat cleans itself behind its ears with its wet paw, it presages rain.
Van Ness removes the one-cylinder eyeglass for a minute and cleans it with his "for display only" handkerchief.
You don't expect a dame like that to make love to a guy that cleans De Vronde's shoes, do you?
He is so proud of it that he cleans it continually.
The harvest mouse cleans his tail as a matter of regular toilet routine, and he does his toilet fifteen times a day.
If saved, the specimen is handed to one of the Eskimo, who cleans it of gravel, lays it out to dry a little, and then places it gently in a bag.
It is she who cleans the main staircase which goes to the top of the house, and has charge of the buildings.
I am here to see royalty, and everybody that I come in contact with, from the boy who cleans my boots to the lady who rents me my rooms, sing hosannas to the system that brings me here to be plundered.
The boy who cleans your boots wants six pence, the chambermaid who sweeps your room wants a shilling, the boy who goes down to see if you have any letters wants six pence, and after paying for all this you get your bill.
At the word, each cock-fighter seizes his bird, drenches it with water, cleans out with a feather the phlegm which has collected in its throat, and shampoos its legs and body.
No sanitary appliances of any kind are provided; no one ever cleans out the cages, or takes any steps to prevent the condition of the captives from being such as would disgrace that of a wild beast in a small travelling menagerie.
It is a powerful escharotic; it destroys proud flesh, and cleans old ulcers: but it must be used by those only who know how to apply it properly, and requires an able hand to manage it.
He observes, that this alkalizated Spirit cleans the fingers; and that things wetted with it do not dry so speedily as those wetted with pure Spirit of Wine.
For once I was glad that I depended on the services of a very small boy, who thinks he cleans it.
Most silver polishes are made of chalk prepared in different ways, but beware of the one which cleans too quickly: it is liable to remove the silver with the tarnish.
She attends the door, cleans silver, wipes off woodwork, and even helps with the mending when the family is small.
She cleans out the cavity she has chosen, makes it as smooth as possible, and lines it with leaves and moss, to embellish the subterranean house in which she is to pass nearly all her existence.
She afterwards cleans and rests herself, by passing her feet over her head, wings, and other parts of her body.
A cell is no sooner abandoned than a worker visits, cleans it, and puts it in a fit state to receive another egg.
With hose in hand he cleans the byre, And saves himself a menial's hire; But gives his girls an education That may unfit them for their station.
Just dipping a tumbler about in this cleans and polishes it and it only needs drying with soft linen.
Five cents' worth of alcohol cleans a pair of gloves beautifully.
Then, after the smoking is over, Ictasanda takes the pipes, overturns them to empty out the ashes, and cleans the bowls by thrusting in a stick.
He utters some words when he cleans out the pipe-bowl, others when he fills the pipe, etc.
The tigress also cleans her claws every day in the same manner.
Then he draws his claws sideways along the bark, and that cleansout the claws.
She comes and sits down on the hero's breakfast-table and cleans them over the poor fellow's food.
She cleans boots all over the house, at all hours of the day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cleans" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
