washing

Example Sentences

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Then she said something I will never forget: “I don’t want to. My mother will get tired from washing my clothes.”

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s like you’re in a washing machine getting hit with sticks.”

From Los Angeles Times

They have battled to keep their windows, patios and cars clean - and they have been unable to hang out their washing as piles of soot would gather on anything in their gardens.

From BBC

Lily leads me into the basement, andI stop her halfway down the stairs when I hear Dad’s stressed voice above the dull rumble of the washing machine.

From Literature

On the side of a highway on the outskirts of Havana, vendors sell bags of charcoal and makeshift braziers, some fashioned from old washing machine drums.

From Barron's