Sweepings is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SWEEPINGS in dictionary:

PLURAL NOUN:
• debris, litter, or refuse
NOUN:
• SWEEPING, the act of sweeping
• dirt or refuse collected by sweeping
• Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
ADJECTIVE:
• extending or performed in a long, continuous curve
• wide in range or effect
• (of a statement) taking no account of particular cases or exceptions; too general
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of one that sweeps

Words related to SWEEPINGS

sweeping14

Words that contain SWEEPINGS

minesweepings21

How to use SWEEPINGS in a sentence

• The Army is not now the sweepings of the jails, and more in need of the wild-beast tamer than of the kind firm teacher, as once it was.
• The plant looked so lovely on the little rough bit of soil which lay between the piles of sweepings.
• The town would give us the street sweepings all spring and summer and some of the people who have stables would contribute fertilizer.
• In our regular army there were the sweepings of many slums, as well as the best blood of our peasantry and our good old families.
• Down the stream the debris of the inundation was floating, sweepings of wretched poverty, uprooted trees, clumps of reeds, thatched roofs from huts, all dirty, slimy, nauseating.
• It will be too late to cry for quarter when they find its stroke clearing the whole table, and tilting them among the sweepings beneath.
• It will be too late to cry for quarter when its stroke clears the table, and tilts them among the sweepings beneath.
• When this was done, he sent down the bucket, and hauled up the sweepings of the deck, which Bob had ready for him, below.
• Thursday, April eighteen, they recrushed and washed the sweepings and residue of the first three quintals of ore which had been compounded with quicksilver.
• He tells us that the sweepings of these rooms have sometimes proved to be worth fifty thousand dollars in a single year.
• This may be composed of such material as the trimmings of hedges, sweepings of shrubberies, twigs from a faggot pile, wood ashes and leaf-mould.
• Any fairly good sandy loam will answer for the seed-pans, and if too stiff it may be freely mixed with sharp sand or the sifted sweepings from roads and gravel walks.
• But the sweepings from gravel walks, finely sifted, may be substituted.
• Rows of Peas are easily protected by a covering of barley sweepings, or by charcoal broken very small and flavoured with paraffin.
• Sometimes the sweepings of the coffee were thrown in among the pease and beans.
• The sweepings are known, and purchased in the market, under the name of P.
• An inferior sort of this vile refuse, or the sweepings of P.
• Sometimes a few bags of sea-damaged cacao or of cacao sweepings are put up, and a good deal of keenness is shown by the individuals who buy this stuff.
• There were dead bees, drones, sweepings, and stale combs, and wings of marauding moths that had strayed in after honey, all tumbled in smooth piles of the finest black dust.
• They carry the sweepings and ashes in baskets or bowls to the fields and leave them there.
• The dirt and sweepings of the houses are cast into the streets, where they soon become dust or mud according to the season.

Similar words containing SWEEPING without suffix s

sweeping14 ensweeping16 sweepingly19 upsweeping18 outsweeping17 minesweeping20 sweepingness18 minesweepings21 sweepingnesses20

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