soaping

Example Sentences

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He worked six days a week, hosing down cars, soaping them up and vacuuming inside.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2025

Exuberant young men splashing around in a pool with one theatrically soaping himself as a crowd cheered.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2024

Set up an assembly line from soaping and scrubbing to rinsing to drying.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Doing it while a shower is running and then soaping up, thus creating a steamy-sudsy environment, would be even better for masking the odors your body produces.

From Slate • May 25, 2020

We would stand or squat in these buckets, soaping ourselves with the brackish water, rinsing off the dust from the day.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela