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How to use the word clean-up in a Sentence?

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It should go without saying that judges at all levels should be held to strict and enforceable ethical standards. the Supreme Court doesn’t need to wait on Congress to clean up its act; the justices could take action today if they wanted to, and if the court fails to act, Congress must.

Dick Durbin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I never thought our house would ever get hit, our neighbors would ever get hit, but we have such wonderful neighbors. Everybody was checking on everybody, and I have a wonderful church group and when they’re allowed to come in, they’re gonna help clean up for me.

Kim Sear

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re going to do the right thing, we’re going to clean up the site, we’re going to test until we get all the contamination gone.

Norfolk Southern

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We do have a small mouse problem, it’s a problem depending on how you look at it. I kind of let them rock, i appreciate that they at night while we’re sleeping, they come up and clean up the crumbs that my son drops on the floor, so yeah, I’m not going to evict the mice any time soon.

Julia Fox

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not true at all that gas stoves cook better, in fact, you can cook about 38.6 pounds of food per hour with your gas range, and it’s going to take time and elbow grease to clean and degrease it afterward. With induction, you can cook 70.9 pounds of food per hour – nearly double the amount of food – and your clean up is going to be a lot easier.

Chris Galarza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s not true at all that gas stoves cook better, in fact, you can cook about 38.6 pounds of food per hour with your gas range, and it’s going to take time and elbow grease to clean and degrease it afterward. With induction, you can cook 70.9 pounds of food per hour – nearly double the amount of food – and your clean up is going to be a lot easier.

Chef Chris Galarza

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s now the responsibility of House Republicans to do something about it, clean up your house. And you can start with George Santos.

Hakeem Jeffries

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Alaskans know I'm the last one who'll ever retreat. Instead, I'm going to reload, with optimism that Alaskans learn from this voting system mistake and correct it in the next election, let's work even harder to send an America First conservative to Washington in November. It's the only way to clean up the mess that President Joe Biden in 2020 and the radical Democrats have made of things.

Sarah Palin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Clean up your acts, if you want the attention of good Women, start acting like good Men.

Kiryu Kazuma

added by Moro-Gajima
2 years ago

It happened again. We all remember the ‘minor incursion’ greenlighting that the White House had to immediately try to clean up before Putin decided to invade Ukraine in thefirst place.

Lee Zeldin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We ’d really just like to be more consistent, definitely some things for us to clean up.

Auston Matthews

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My priority is to restore Wyoming's lone Congressional seat to the people of Wyoming and to represent their interests. I look forward to working with Speaker McCarthy next Congress to clean up Nancy Pelosi's mess and hold the Biden Administration accountable to the American people.

Harriet Hageman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Kaysha did an amazing job today, we'll look again at our equipment, look to clean up some drives and see what happens. ... We go out there and we do the best that we can do. Sometimes it's not good enough and sometimes it is.

Kaillie Humphries

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We need to find domestic sources, and secondary sources are important to look at, these are coming from waste piles particularly. If we can develop the technology, we can clean up the environment as well as get these resources.

Sarma Pisupati

Found on CNN
2 years ago

For a romantic Valentine's meal without all the fuss and clean up, use your Instant Pot to make this Creamy Tuscan-inspired pasta. It is rich and flavorful and so easy. The ease of this recipe gives more time to spend with your special person.

Emily Eggers

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What has happened on this stretch of the Union Pacific railroad is unacceptable, we are committed to an all-of-government approach to prevent thefts, prosecute the criminals involved, and clean up local communities.

Gavin Newsom

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

What exciting news for DOE and the Idaho Cleanup project, a successful clean-up means protection for the region and the Snake River Plain Aquifer.

Mike Simpson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It was nice, obviously, garbage time in the hockey game, but I thought to get it out of the way was good. There’s a lot to clean up, but it was really good.

Sean Durzi

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They need to clean up their act, our hope is this verdict will make them wake up and do something.

Valerie Capers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If the government wants a chance to catch up, it needs a proper strategy and enough cash to clean up our homes on a massive scale. This means substantial grants for heat pump installations, especially for the poorest families, removing VAT on green home technologies and a phase out of gas boilers early next decade.

Greenpeace UK

Found on CNN
2 years ago

China has really been trying to clean up its bad corporate debt for years. And although they made some progress before the pandemic, the task often seems interminable, and that's what you're certainly seeing here, the impacts from a large default by Guangzhou Evergrande would be remarkable.

Mattie Bekink

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The strength of our team will not be affected. The course that I have chosen with my team, to change, to clean up our economy, to fight against crime, and against big and powerful financial groups -- this does not affect that in any way. On the contrary... the Ukrainian people have given me a mandate for changes.

Mykhailo Podoliak

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Clean electricity ends up being a catalyst for an entire clean economy, it turns out we can use clean electricity to clean up our transportation, our buildings and even part of heavy industry.

Leah Stokes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We played good, had a lot to learn from but we will get better, execution on my part is something we can clean up and learn from.

Joe Milton

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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