do the washing

Example Sentences

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I remember one time, we had that many pots and pans piling up, we had to do the washing up in the bath.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2019

It’s almost the same, I cook, do the washing, you know whatever.

From Slate • May 1, 2018

But in the high-altitude training camp in western Kenya where they live like monks, they muck out shared toilets and do the washing up just like everyone else.

From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2016

The New Man rose to prominence in the 1980s like an exotic new species, happy to do the washing up or change a nappy.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2014

Perhaps I could hire Susannah to do the washing up.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson