Example sentences for: broom

How can you use “broom” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This catapulted us into Manhattan-real-estate hell, a place where rapacious brokers extract usurious commissions on glorified broom closets renting for $2,300 a month.

  • In India recently, I went to every bookstore I could find, and even in stores the size of a broom closet in back alleys (where the proprietors surely stocked no book they were not certain they could sell), Stephen King was the second-most-stocked author.

  • Book-reviewing bears about the same resemblance to literature as cleaning up after the elephants does to being in the circus, except that you're more likely to be useful pushing a broom behind the elephants.

  • Heath is another common name used in England for the common heather , but gardeners everywhere reserve heath for the closely related plants that are not heather . Heath has also been used for the other shrubby non-ericaceous plants like gorse ( furze , whins ) and broom that could survive on the heath.

  • Erica is ultimately from the Greek for `easily broken,' and Calluna is a Latin and Greek word for `sweep or broom,' heather twigs being superior to those of heath for this purpose, which indeed might leave as much mess as it cleared up.


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