The weapon had been meticulously cleaned and sharpened.

When there is time, he will trade world news, discuss the weather, overpraise his strong coffee, whose secret is a meticulously cleaned pot.

In the last couple of years, the statues that remained were meticulously cleaned and restored.

Like the rest of the school, the library is cleaned meticulously each day by the 4 clerics and 14 employees who maintain the school.

The pen had been meticulously cleaned.

Rescue-day ash had been meticulously cleaned from he stone seats, the fountains, the trees, even the ground.

Although the courthouse has been meticulously cleaned and restored in recent years, its lesser relation is closed and empty.

Everything has been meticulously cleaned; the stove and kettle sparkle.

Houses were meticulously cleaned, old items discarded.

Quarters are meticulously cleaned, and bunks must meet specific inspection requirements with a "white collar" turn down.