mopped

past tense of mop

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for mopped
Verb
  • After the shooting, the school was placed in a lockdown and officials swept the campus.
    Alex Stone, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
  • That’s more exciting to me than last year, when James swept the fiction categories, with even the Pulitzer board overriding their fiction judges to award the big prize to Percival Everett’s novel.
    Maris Kreizman, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Nothing better than putting down the top and driving beautiful roads just after the rain stops and the air is powerfully charged by the nearby ocean, scrubbed clean.
    Mark Ewing, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
  • That ended last month, the latest senior figure scrubbed from a poster that is unrecognisable from just 18 months ago.
    Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Last year, while our house was being vacuumed by a housekeeper, Butch bit her on her calf.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Step-by-Step Cleaning Process Vacuuming Upholstered chairs should be vacuumed weekly to remove loose dust, dirt, and hair.
    Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • At this stage, the anchovies can be packaged with the salt they were cured in, or they can be rinsed, deboned, filleted, packed into tins or jars, and covered in oil.
    Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The operator rinsed the gloved hand in the sink and came back to the main cook line to prep food.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The two asked around but brushed off the messages as a prank.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 10 Sep. 2025
  • According to her, the girlfriend brushed off the refusal and signaled her annoyance.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Toilet bowls need to be cleaned.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Hummingbird feeders should be cleaned once every two to five days.
    Abby Fribush, Southern Living, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Both the real Roan and the dress version wore a bright aqua blue shadow brushed all the way up the lid, with a hint of amethyst purple dusted underneath her '30s-style skinny brows.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Turn dough out onto a work surface dusted with powdered sugar.
    Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Victor Campos gently combed away sawdust clinging to Oden’s hide as an auctioneer’s voice echoed Saturday through the Gold Country Fair.
    Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The explosion of attention was traumatizing — death threats slipped under her dorm room door, paparazzi combed through her trash, and she was forced off campus with round-the-clock security.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Mopped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mopped. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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