From the moment a storm breaks till the last flake has fallen, the sweepers are run unceasingly over the tracks of the railroads, each in its own division, which it is its business to keep clear.
Thus, not long since crowds of people assembled at Khetwadi, in Bombay, to see a shrine erected by some sweepers to Zahir Pir, which at intervals seemed to oscillate from its foundations.
The Mehtars orsweepers have Lal Pir or Lal Beg, of whom something more will be said later on.
At shrines of Sitala, the small-pox goddess, sweepersbring round a small pig.
Of all the tunes played by the boatswain's pipe, that which calls the sweepers is the most frequently heard.
The small boats from the hospital ship, the "Grigsby" and the mine-sweepers had already gone forward to meet her.
Darrin caused a signal to be made to two of the mine-sweepers to come in close to him.
I know that all the British mine-sweepers are constantly on the job, but if necessary we must have more mine-sweepers.
Our first mission is to protect the mine-sweepers as far as possible, but we are also to keep a sharp lookout for German submarines; and especially submarines of the mine-laying kind.
After sending three mine-sweepers and the three patrol boats to the shoals, two craft to each shoal, Darrin saw to it that the other six were assigned to duty in the deeper waters off shore.
Have you seen any mine-sweepers destroyed while at work?
Taking Belle to his own seldom-occupied quarters on the destroyer, Dave left her there, and then went to the bridge and signalled his orders to the mine-sweepers and to the Italian steamship.
These, however, were provided with sweepers and possessed good speed.
The mine-sweepers signalled their message of greeting, then turned and swung into place.
Dave's next order was to send a wireless message, warning all mine-sweepers and other craft that an enemy submarine had been discovered in that location.
Twenty minutes after that two British mine-sweepers were found at work combing the seas with their wire sweepers.
More mine-sweepers are lost than any other kind of naval craft.
For ten miles the sweepers proceeded, with a total "catch" of only three mines, which must have been left-overs from other cruises.
The vessel wearing the emblem of the Red Cross had not yet reached the spot at which the sweepers had turned.
By this time the "Grigsby" and the mine-sweepers had received nearly as many rescued passengers as they could hold.
Where the City ends there is a great road winding off to the north, and we Street Sweepers must keep this road clean to the first milepost.
Then they asked: "Are Street Sweepers sent to different parts of the City or do they always work in the same places?
The two other Street Sweepers of our brigade were a hundred paces away down the road.
The sweepers dropped their brooms and began carrying fire buckets full of water.
In other parts of India leeches are kept and applied bysweepers and sometimes by their women.
When this happens, all the food on the dish becomes jutha or leavings of food, and as a general rule no caste except the sweeperswill eat these leavings of food of another caste or of another person of their own.
The Chamar and Kori, and the Chuhra and Bhangi, or sweepers and scavengers of the Punjab and United Provinces, are now purely occupational castes and their original tribal affinities have entirely disappeared.
The sweepers have not taken out the dirt, and the maids have not washed the marble steps.
Pantagruel' is like a beautiful and noble city, full of palaces, in the resplendent dawn, before the street-sweepers of Paris have come.
The mine sweepers continued to comb the waves for any stray mine missiles that by chance might have still floated from war operations.
In fact, 'Sweepers of the Sea' comes into the class of important fiction, and as such will be received and read by a discriminating public.
Every evening about eleven he was seen in Piccadilly, going towards Arlington Street, and every morning about four the street-sweepers saw him returning home along the Strand.
I never pass a set of street-sweepers without buttoning up," said Harding, as they went out of the Temple into the Strand.
The streets of this town are kept as clean as a floor, by sweepers watching the streets all day long, collecting and carrying away all the refuse matter.
Chop-Chin hoped to become a sweeper also, when he was a little older; but at the time when my story begins he was only twelve years old, and the law required that all sweepers should have passed their fourteenth year.
A group of sweepersstood at the farther end of the court-yard, talking together in a state of wild excitement, with many gestures.
The awakening of Paris, with its gangs of sweepers and early workmen trooping to their destinations, added to his troubles as day brightened.
He nodded and Dan went out and climbed with guides through a grim, dark tunnel where the sweepers were kept.
The sweepers were horrible as they poured from their holes, but they looked almost beautiful to Dan.
Apparently the sweeperswere fed less and got more hungry.
And if he hasn't been on vacation and if his charge isn't high, thesweepers will go out and grab him.
By then, the sweepers had been killed and Dan became aware of bullets thrumming past him.
Just when that statue begins to tip, I'll let thesweepers out.
I've got the last of the sweepers collected at the holes opening into the square.
Then they'll kill the sweepers and my bolt is shot.
Our Allies could bear witness to the work of British mine-sweepers and patrols in the Mediterranean.
Let the sweeperswork how they will the end is never in sight.
Mine sweepers are of course protected, for the sympathetic mind will understand that a submarine which has just laid traps resents their removal.
Lowestoft mine-sweepers hanker after leave not to spend by the fireside but on this brave sport.
It is well that the country should know that the work for which no gold can pay was not undertaken for gold, and that they have held on as mine-sweepers when as fishermen they would have lain snugly in harbour.
On mine carriers and mine sweepers they serve; on paddle steamers and panting tug boats; on water ships and balloon ships; on salvage and escort work.
In the course of the lecture the Doctor said that the machine must succeed in all cases where it is used, if the prejudices of the master chimney-sweepers did not interfere with the trial.
Several master chimney-sweepers addressed the chair in the course of the afternoon.
She was steaming slowly in a northerly direction, and had already passed the innermost of the mine-sweepers and their attendant destroyers.
Possibly it was to lure the mine-sweepers into a sense of security, or else the Turks thought fit to ignore the small craft and await the chance of a surprise attack upon the covering British battleships and cruisers.
The Commander told me that the mine-sweepers ought to clear away all the mines as far as the Narrows within the next twenty-four hours.
Apparently thesweepers had almost completed their work up this particular area, and were making a final test to make certain that no hidden peril had escaped them.
Already the British warships had penetrated more than two miles up the formidable Straits, the mine-sweepers performing their difficult task with the utmost coolness and bravery.
A driving rain was falling, while across the murky patch formed by the partly obstructed mouth of the tunnel the search-lights of the British fleet travelled slowly to and fro as they aided the mine-sweepers in their long, arduous task.
Otherwise German mine-sweepers could visit the scene, and sweep up enough of the obstruction to make a hole through which their submarines could pass.
The night before the destroyers arrived, while some of the officers of my staff were dining with Admiral Bayly, the windows were shaken by heavy explosions made by the mines which the sweepers were dragging out.
Provided with diagrams of the mine-fields that had been surrendered under the conditions of capitulation, the mine-sweepers cleared the harbor for the entrance of the fleet.
The sweepers had more than the cables and grapples that make a mine-sweeper’s outfit.
The men on these mine-sweepers dedicate themselves to the tomb.
Golden Lads, and Girles all must, As Chimney-Sweepers come to dust Arui.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sweepers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
