Crossword-Solution: SWEEPINGS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sweepings | n. pl. | Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “SWEEPINGS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Stuff in a dustbin | 1 answer |
| rinsings | 10 answers |
| draff | 13 answers |
| waste-product | 13 answers |
| carrion | 13 answers |
| Waste product | 14 answers |
| slops | 16 answers |
| Offal | 25 answers |
| Leavings | 39 answers |
| Hogwash | 52 answers |
| Garbage | 53 answers |
| filth | 56 answers |
| good riddance | 61 answers |
| DIRT ___ | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SWEEPINGS (5)
And now it might beat upon these ruins, and who should assemble? The houses are down, the people dead, their lineage extinct; and the sweepings and fugitives of distant bays and islands encamp upon their graves.
Your inherent portion of dirt does not fall of acquisitions, by sweepings exhaled from below; and one insect furnishes you with a share of poison to destroy another.
But in all the bandyings from hand to hand, and strivings to and fro, and sweepings here and there, which--saving that he looked more jolly and more radiant after every struggle--troubled his peace of mind no more than if he had been a straw upon the water’s surface, he never once released his firm grasp of an arm, drawn tight through his.
There we were, in that memorable spring of a certain year in the late seventies, dodging to and fro, baffled on every tack, and with our stores running down to sweepings of bread-lockers and scrapings of sugar-casks.
Truly they seek the living among the dead, and the immortal Molière among the sweepings of attorneys’ offices.
Quotes with SWEEPINGS (2)
Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.
I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2008).