He carried the dustpan and broom away to their places, but he did not reenter the room.
He sprang up only to come into collision with the dustpan full of flour which lay near his chair.
The broom and dustpan sweep up the pieces, and consign them to the dustbin.
Then she threw that piece, too, into the dustpan.
Tommy had gotten a broom and a dustpan and was already raising a cloud of dust by her efforts at sweeping.
Examplesofdustpan
dustpan
I have long held the view that the most important items of pest control equipment for use against storage pests are the broom anddustpanand brush.
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She has to come here with a giantdustpanand brush.
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They must get their little dustpans and brushes out and clean up their own mess.
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We are indeed a gildeddustpanand brush.
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Handheld dustpans may be used with either a full-size broom or with a smaller whisk broom or brush sometimes called a duster.
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Spike appears and collects the dust using adustpanand brush, and empties it into the bin.
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It is commonly used in combination with adustpan.
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On the first stair, adustpanand brush quarrel with each other.
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Thedustpanmay appear to be a type of flat scoop.
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A variant on thedustpanis the silent butler, a handheld, liddeddustpan.
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Streets were reportedly clean by 10 am, with volunteers having shown up with brooms and dustpans to clean the city.
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