After the cast bell was removed from the mold, Revere and his employees would painstakingly clean, polish, and tune the bell by hand.

In the bathroom Faith tried not to focus on what she was doing as she painstakingly cleaned the blood off her clothing.

Since he did not know that, the next day he painstakingly cleaned the spark plugs and tried again to crank the Ford; couldn't, and removed more hootin'-annies and dingbats than he had touched the day before.

The restaurant's owners painstakingly cleaned and preserved the grand interior.

One, Rawang (Norman Atun) painstakingly cleans the mattress, and shares it with Hsiao-kang (Lee Kang-Sheng), a Chinese drifter he finds beaten and left for dead in the middle of the road.

Then she wet a towel and painstakingly cleaned the wound on Grant's arm; the bullet hadn't penetrated, but the graze was deep and ugly.

To the general, there were few pleasures in life equal to rolling an engine hoist up to an old car and hauling out a begrimed V-8, then painstakingly cleaning and restoring the engine until it ran sweeter than when it had left the plant.

With an assistant, he painstakingly cleaned the tape in 20 and 30 second fragments, improved the sound and transferred it to one-inch videotape.

I found Bonnie Baskin in the basement of the museum, painstakingly cleaning the grit from an 18th-century Laotian sacred bronze drum with a Q-Tip.