vacuum cleaner
noun
: a household appliance for cleaning floors, carpets, upholstery, etc. by suction
called also vacuum sweeper
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Workers used a swimming pool-type vacuum cleaner to suck up algae from the bottom, leaving behind clean patches of American Flag Blue paint adjacent to enormous swaths of green algae in a pattern familiar to anyone who has ever vacuumed a carpet before.
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Katie Vogel, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
Workers used a swimming pool-type vacuum cleaner to suck up algae from the bottom, leaving behind clean patches of American Flag Blue paint adjacent to enormous swaths of green algae in a pattern familiar to anyone who has ever vacuumed a carpet before.
—ABC News, 16 June 2026
Besides lawn mowers, LDrobot’s visual perception products are integrated into robotic vacuum cleaners, room service robots, restaurant service robots, inspection robots and logistics robots, according to the company.
—Russell Flannery, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Best Splurge Pick Dyson makes some of the best cordless vacuum cleaners, and the V11 is in a class of its own.
—Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
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Katie Vogel, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
Workers used a swimming pool-type vacuum cleaner to suck up algae from the bottom, leaving behind clean patches of American Flag Blue paint adjacent to enormous swaths of green algae in a pattern familiar to anyone who has ever vacuumed a carpet before.
—ABC News, 16 June 2026
Besides lawn mowers, LDrobot’s visual perception products are integrated into robotic vacuum cleaners, room service robots, restaurant service robots, inspection robots and logistics robots, according to the company.
—Russell Flannery, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Best Splurge Pick Dyson makes some of the best cordless vacuum cleaners, and the V11 is in a class of its own.
—Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 12 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for vacuum cleaner
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“Vacuum cleaner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vacuum%20cleaner. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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