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How to use cleaner in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Cleaner means a person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows. Example: “I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.”

Examples of cleaner by meaning

nounA person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.

  • The cleaner worked, of course, at nights.1952 February, J. Pelham Maitland, “Locomotive Working on Sussex Branches Fifty Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 84

nounA professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).

  • I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.

More sentences with cleaner

  • Have a look in the Acme brochure for a new vacuum cleaner.From the entry brochure
  • The office was now large enough to need an industrial strength vacuum cleaner.From the entry industrial strength
  • Our cleaners are almost too efficient: they throw away anything left out on a desk.From the entry efficient
  • My boss spilled water all over my keyboard today. On the plus side, it's much cleaner now.From the entry on the plus side
  • This vacuum cleaner has an eco setting which preserves battery life.From the entry eco
  • This is the component of the vacuum cleaner that sucks in dust.From the entry suck in
  • The artifact was cleaned sonically in the ultrasonic cleaner tank in mere seconds.From the entry sonically
  • The fridge door is grimy. Please wipe it down with some spray cleaner.From the entry wipe down
  • I'll just run the vacuum cleaner over the carpet.From the entry run
  • I can fix most vacuum cleaners in a snap.From the entry snap
  • Clean the panel with a dilute, neutral cleaner.From the entry dilute
  • She's good enough at fixing vacuum cleaners that she should hang out her shingle and try making some money at it.From the entry hang out one's shingle
  • She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.From the entry percentage
  • Our cat always gives the vacuum cleaner a wide berth.From the entry wide berth
  • The robotic vacuum cleaner proved to be hackable, so we reprogrammed two of them to race each other.From the entry hackable
  • The cleaners went home early, leaving the floor unmopped.From the entry unmopped
  • This system has generated $4 billion in annual private sector investment toward a cleaner transportation sector."2024 November 8, Luz Pena, “California's gas prices could have major increase with passing of new fuel standards”, in ABC7 News. From the entry clean
  • Since that ban took effect last October, “Montclair has been a healthier, cleaner, quieter community,” she said.2024 June 20, Wayne Parry, “U.S. bans on gasoline-powered leaf blowers grow, as does blowback from landscaping industry”, in AP News…. From the entry Montclair
  • He was able to gain employment as a cleaner relatively quickly.2021 December 29, Tom Allett, “How Wilston Jackson made railway history”, in RAIL, number 947, page 52. From the entry get one's foot in the door
  • An on-board cleaner passes through, disinfecting every grabrail and handhold as they pass.2020 November 4, Paul Bigland, “At no point have I felt unsafe...”, in Rail, page 47. From the entry disinfect
  • Does your canine companion panic when you bring out the vacuum cleaner?2020 August 10, @Frederi74687757, X, archived from the original on 24 Apr 2026. From the entry zuigerphobia
  • I was amazed to find out that men were cleaner than some women.2018 April 18, LaDonna Richard, Bathroom Talk, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry gettin' it in
  • My advice is to presume the Nike-clad cleaner innocent and take personal stuff home, especially minging sportswear.2011, Lucy Kellaway, The Answers: All the office questions you never dared to ask, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry minging
  • Examine the stain and spot clean it with an appropriate cleaner.2011, Laura Ehrlich, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Quilting Basics. From the entry spot clean
  • Fans of ionic air cleaners and fogless shaving mirrors rejoice: The Sharper Image is back.2009 January 19, Eric Taub, “Sharper Image Stores Are Dead, but the Brand Goes On”, in New York Times. From the entry fogless
  • THIS has big savings on top brands of whitegoods, televisions, vacuum cleaners and most major appliances.2009 February 15, Liz Ackroyd, “Bargains at the click of a button”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2009. From the entry whitegoods
  • It makes for a cleaner job — you just slit their throats and drop them in.2009, Dane Love, Legendary Ayrshire: custom, folklore, tradition, page 208. From the entry murder hole
  • "Billions of dollars are being squandered, and the taxpayer is being taken to the cleaners," Waxman said.2007 February 4, Scott Shane, Ron Nixon, “U.S. contractors becoming a virtual fourth branch of government”, in New York Times, retrieved…. From the entry take to the cleaners
  • According to Nick, he was trying to sell the dry cleaners.2002, “Midnight Sun”, in Without a Trace, season 1, episode 10. From the entry track
  • The Board can be kept much cleaner if two shedhands work together.1996, John Fowler, Australian Woolclassing, page 23. From the entry shedhand
  • Or is it just her husband that she takes to the cleaners, man?1995, Paul Kaye, Anthony Hines, Anyone for Pennis?, spoken by Dennis Pennis (Paul Kaye). From the entry take to the cleaners
  • The GPO always specified a full complement of fittings, leg shields, footboards, bulbhorn and ‘protectomotor’ air cleaner.1992, Wright, Owen, BSA : the complete story, Crowood Press, page 65. From the entry bulbhorn
  • What expertise in BASIC is required of waiters, floor cleaners, doormen, and teamakers?1989, North Carolina State University, Social science microcomputer review, Volume 7. From the entry teamaker
  • For example, most of the nightsoilers, or latrine cleaners, at Kambove were Lozi from Barotseland.1989, John Higginson, “Copper, Community, and Death”, in A Working Class in the Making: Belgian Colonial Labor Policy, Private Enterprise…. From the entry nightsoiler
  • You are not going to send any of your hand knits to the cleaners.1987, Gertrude Taylor, American Knitting Book, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry hand knit
  • Gradually, workers were leaving woolworking for the cleaner and more agreeable work in cotton.1978, Dale Miquelon, Dugard of Rouen, page 15. From the entry woolworking
  • Don't you know you've always got to clean up after the cleaners?1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New…. From the entry bird
  • It is impossible not to feel sympathy with shedmasters in the difficulty they experience in obtaining cleaners.1953 October, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 686. From the entry shedmaster

Meaning of cleaner

  1. noun A person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.
  2. noun A device that cleans, such as the vacuum cleaner.
  3. noun A substance used for cleaning; especially, one retailed for that purpose and meant for use on things other than one's own body.

Full definition of cleaner

Questions about cleaner in a sentence

How do you use cleaner in a sentence?
Cleaner is used as a noun. For example: “I'll have to take this shirt to the cleaners.”
What is a short sentence with cleaner?
“The cleaner worked, of course, at nights.”
What does cleaner mean?
Cleaner means a person whose occupation is to clean things, especially rooms, floors, and windows.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cleaner (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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