After the boats had been tracked through, the voyageurs delayed for the scrubbing and hair trimming that preceded their approach to the dwellings of men.
Eagerly the boy turned to a sailor who was scrubbing the deck.
Sam brought the milk immediately, and the lubras, after scrubbing two or three isolated patches on the floor, went off on some frolic of their own.
A power operated scrubbing machine using a hydro-carbon oil as the cleansing medium to clean the printing face of the electrotypes.
As the casting table completes a circuit, the first shell backed up has cooled so that it can be removed to the scrubbing machine.
For the present Max had hardly any idea how pure and deep a Jordan he was about to be dipped in, or how thorough a scrubbing he himself was to receive.
Upon that the General fell to scrubbing himself--incidentally, to sending soapsuds flying in every direction.
I do not care to have this scrubbinggoing on until midnight.
One family had taken possession of the landing; the father was washing plates in a small earthen pan near the sink, while the mother was scrubbing the baby before putting it to sleep.
She did not notice the torn and untidy paper and, having ceased to pay any attention to personal cleanliness, was hardly likely to spend her time in scrubbing the greasy floors.
On the bench before the door stood two wash-tubs, at one of which stood a strapping Irish girl with red arms and petticoats, scrubbing the plowman's clothes with superhuman energy.
I wonder when these things was washed afore," said the woman, scrubbing at them.
Scrubbing and scouring that others were glad to shirk fell to her share.
A corral of the familiar gray-topped wagons beside red brick farm buildings showed the location of a base of supplies, and in front of the house we saw a naked soldier unconcernedly scrubbing himself in a tub of water.
They've been scrubbing ever since, but then they should share everything.
Elizabeth lifted down a tin bowl and filled it with water; placed in it a piece of yellow soap, a piece of sand soap and a scrubbing brush, and then began to roll up her sleeves.
To-day she had taken it into her head to try the effect of a few bows of blue ribbon upon her cherry-coloured straw hat, before the breakfast things were washed or the sweeping and scrubbing done.
Or in the pulpit, scrubbing cheap earthenware souls?
My own particular pet scrubbing brush has been used for blackleading.
Two soapstone tubs for extra hardscrubbing at right.
Scrubbing floors, and cleaning kettles and polishing the stove?
Boards may be rendered white and clean by scrubbing them, instead of with soap, with a mixture composed of one part of freshly slaked lime and three parts of white sand.
Under the old system, several alternate buckings with pearlash or potash and lengthened exposure on the field, with one or two sourings, and a final scrubbing with a strong lather of soft soap, constituted the chief details of the process.
Through the crevices of its weather-beaten boards came the sound of vigorous scrubbing of wool, and sometimes an impatient "Ninette!
Then he poured some water into the basin and washed his hot face, scrubbing his lips with the sponge.
Mrs. Twomey, a tiny and almost imperceptible bundle, was already on her knees in a corner, scrubbing a glistening metal churn, and so engrossed in her task as to be unaware of her visitors.
Jack, halting a moment as he got on his feet after the slide down the scrubbing board.
She called to her mother, who was scrubbing the floor of the hallway just beyond the open door, "These old letters you had in the bottom drawer, weren't they some papa wrote you before you were married?
The sound of her mother's diligent scrubbing in the hall came back slowly to Alice's hearing, as she restored the letter to the packet, wrapped the packet in its muslin covering, and returned it to the drawer.
The grime was perpetually renewed; scrubbing only ground it in.
Emerging from the kitchen at noon, Mrs. Adams found her daughter on hands and knees, scrubbing the bases of the columns between the hall and the "living-room.
And so you've been singing it ever since, even when scrubbing the cabin?
Mrs Penhaligon had finished her scrubbing and carried her pail out to the porch.
Once a week give it a more thoro washing, scrubbing all parts with a brush.
Keep this parer clean by scrubbing the inside with a stiff brush and rinsing well with water after using.
The early housemaid kneeling on the doorstep, can stay her scrubbing hand and turn her pensive head and scan my simple breakfast, before I know what it will be myself.
Phebe was quite herself again; color in the cheeks now; eyes that wandered smiling to and fro; and lips that sang as gaily and far more sweetly than when she kept time to her blithe music with a scrubbing brush.
And bath water took the place of the scrubbing water in the tub directly the floor was mopped up.
That was because they knew dish washing and sweeping, bed making and cooking, scrubbing and laundering.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scrubbing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
