vacuum cleaner
noun
: a household appliance for cleaning floors, carpets, upholstery, etc. by suction
called also vacuum sweeper
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Rather than focusing on lead characters, the show is built around a collection of wooden pieces— such as cats on vacuum cleaners, flying piglets, geometric shape – which are used to tell new stories each time, much like a child reaching into a toy box.
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2 June 2025
Two huge plants in Iceland operate like giant vacuum cleaners, sucking in air and stripping out planet-heating carbon pollution.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
The absurdist fantasy comedy portrays a married couple where the wife dies of a respiratory illness caused by dust pollution, and then returns to the grieving husband as a ghost in the form of a vacuum cleaner.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
And for some Americans, sticker shock from tariffs might mean skipping a new pair of jeans or squeezing a few more months out of a wheezing vacuum cleaner.
—Karen Yuan, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2025
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Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2 June 2025
Two huge plants in Iceland operate like giant vacuum cleaners, sucking in air and stripping out planet-heating carbon pollution.
—Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 30 May 2025
The absurdist fantasy comedy portrays a married couple where the wife dies of a respiratory illness caused by dust pollution, and then returns to the grieving husband as a ghost in the form of a vacuum cleaner.
—Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 21 May 2025
And for some Americans, sticker shock from tariffs might mean skipping a new pair of jeans or squeezing a few more months out of a wheezing vacuum cleaner.
—Karen Yuan, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for vacuum cleaner
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“Vacuum cleaner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vacuum%20cleaner. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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