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How to pronounce broom in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms sweep
Type of pass over, wipe
Verb group sweep
Type Words
Synonyms calluna vulgaris, heather, ling, scots heather
Type of heath
Type Words
Type of cleaning device, cleaning implement, cleaning equipment
Has types besom, whisk broom, push broom, whisk
Type Words
Type of bush, shrub
Has types genista tinctoria, green broom, greenweed, needle furze, petty whin, scotch broom, whin, broom tree, common broom, cytisus albus, cytisus multiflorus, cytisus scoparius, dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, genista anglica, genista hispanica, spanish broom, spanish gorse, spartium junceum, weaver's broom, weeping tree broom, white broom, white spanish broom, woadwaxen, woodwaxen
Type Words
Type of finish

Examples of broom

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After parts of Manchester were destroyed, their own broom army sprung to action.
From the metro.co.uk
Our group of 12 people all have sticks, about the size of broom handles to hold.
From the theaustralian.com.au
It's easy enough, but still time-consuming, to clean your driveway with a broom.
From the delawareonline.com
Its best sound is achieved using a single steel-wire snare-brush or whisk broom.
From the en.wikipedia.org
And on the Tourmalet, once you've bonked, the only way back is in a broom wagon.
From the guardian.co.uk
Let the needles get good and crispy, then knock them off with a broom, he says.
From the kansas.com
She jumped off of me and grabbed a nearby broom that she said her mom never used.
From the dispatch.com
Broom declined to order anything besides what other prison inmates were served.
From the thestate.com
Broom had been onto fish and was in the running for the first time in her career.
From the newsobserver.com
More examples
  • Sweep: sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed"
  • A cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle
  • Any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
  • Heather: common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere
  • A broom is a cleaning tool consisting of stiff fibres attached to, and roughly parallel to, a cylindrical handle, the broomstick. It is commonly used in combination with a dustpan.
  • Broom is a full-length album from indie pop/rock band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. It was released in the United States in 2005.
  • Brooms are a group of evergreen, semi-evergreen, and deciduous shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the legume family Fabaceae, mainly in the three genera Chamaecytisus, Cytisus and Genista, but also in five other small genera (see box, right). ...
  • Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866, Paisley u2013 6 April 1951) was a Scottish South African doctor and paleontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow.
  • A domestic utensil with fibers bound together at the end of a long handle, used for sweeping; An implement with which players sweep the ice to make a stone travel further and curl less; a broom or sweeper; Any of several shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae; heather, esp. ...