1
: one that sweeps
2
: a lone back in soccer who plays between the line of the defenders and the goal
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The city’s vehicular street sweepers can’t get to the curbs due to all the posts now in the roadways.
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
The first heavy-duty electric vehicles — two street sweepers and a firetruck — are slated to arrive this year.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2024
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Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024
The first heavy-duty electric vehicles — two street sweepers and a firetruck — are slated to arrive this year.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2024
See all Example Sentences for sweeper
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“Sweeper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sweeper. Accessed 1 Jun. 2024.
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