Dustpan is an English word with synonyms like receptacle. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dustpan in a sentence
Dustpan meaning
A flat scoop with a handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.
Synonyms of Dustpan
Using Dustpan
- The main meaning on this page is: A flat scoop with a handle, into which dust, dirt and other material is conveyed with a brush or broom.
- Useful related words include: dustpanful, containerful, receptacle.
- In the example corpus, dustpan often appears in combinations such as: dustpan and.
Context around Dustpan
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dustpan
- In this selection, "dustpan" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 32.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, commercial, simple, waiting and brushings stand out and add context to how "dustpan" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a commercial dustpan and brush and broom and dustpan waiting for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dustpan" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dustpan
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He has been accused of violent disorder and production of a commercial dustpan and brush with a steel handle capable of inflicting serious injury during the incident. (27 words)
In Times Square, a custodian idled Wednesday morning with a broom and dustpan, waiting for messes unlikely to appear with no tourists wandering under the bright billboards. (27 words)
And there is Reid, a boyish-looking 54, holding a dustpan, as silkie chickens scoot around the yard, not clucking loud enough to drown out his indignation. (27 words)
While you may not want to have a tatty spiders web in your pristine home, or share your bed with a spider, there is never any good reason to kill them, simply scoop them into a dustpan, or bottle and relocate them to your garden or other suitable habitat. (49 words)
Case in point, being both beautiful and useful, this effortlessly simple dustpan and brush set is one piece of homeware the iconic designer William Morris would be proud to take back to his house with him. (36 words)
They sold soaps that came in massive unwieldy slabs that you had to slice with a knife, then they shattered into shards, then you had to clean yourself with dustpan brushings. (31 words)
Example sentences (6)
He has been accused of violent disorder and production of a commercial dustpan and brush with a steel handle capable of inflicting serious injury during the incident.
In Times Square, a custodian idled Wednesday morning with a broom and dustpan, waiting for messes unlikely to appear with no tourists wandering under the bright billboards.
They sold soaps that came in massive unwieldy slabs that you had to slice with a knife, then they shattered into shards, then you had to clean yourself with dustpan brushings.
While you may not want to have a tatty spiders web in your pristine home, or share your bed with a spider, there is never any good reason to kill them, simply scoop them into a dustpan, or bottle and relocate them to your garden or other suitable habitat.
And there is Reid, a boyish-looking 54, holding a dustpan, as silkie chickens scoot around the yard, not clucking loud enough to drown out his indignation.
Case in point, being both beautiful and useful, this effortlessly simple dustpan and brush set is one piece of homeware the iconic designer William Morris would be proud to take back to his house with him.
Common combinations with dustpan
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: