How to Use laundry in a Sentence
laundry
noun- There's a pile of dirty laundry in the laundry basket.
- The patients' sheets are sent regularly to the hospital laundry.
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Put all the laundry in the basket and then set that down.
—Kc Davis, SELF, 12 Oct. 2022
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It can be wiped down and the crib sheet can be tossed in the laundry for cleanup.
—Ambrosia V. Brody, Parents, 28 Mar. 2024
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My dad does the laundry, cooks for both of them and helps her bathe.
—Michelle Boudin, PEOPLE.com, 21 Apr. 2022
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The laundry from a houseful of people, food and drink bills, the cleanup.
—Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2024
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What if doing the laundry and having a treat were one and the same?
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 26 Nov. 2024
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To water the plants, do laundry and fill our pets’ bowls.
—Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
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Moldy food in the fridge, damp laundry left in the dryer, or a leaky pipe could be to blame.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2024
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His mom still does his laundry and changes his sheets for him.
—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 28 Aug. 2022
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The tidy actor also does the laundry and cooks all the meals in the Prinze-Gellar house.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2022
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In France, at home, his laundry was done for him; his meals were cooked for him.
—Scott Bordow, The Arizona Republic, 11 July 2023
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The unit comes with its own laundry and storage area in the basement.
—Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
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The beads dissolve in water and add a fresh scent to your laundry.
—Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2025
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Or because the pay gap still exists and so does the laundry.
—Lyz Lenz, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2024
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Laces can be thrown in the laundry, yes, but the rest of your boot needs attention too.
—Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 6 May 2022
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Don't overlook the laundry hamper that's just $24 and can hold up to 22 pounds at a time.
—Amy Schulman, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2022
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The laundry of the displaced hangs out the windows and all along the metal fence around the hospital.
—Vivian Yee, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2023
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And things are about to get worse for our Frenchman, who hasn’t done his own laundry in decades.
—EW.com, 26 Sep. 2024
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The others will taunt me for trying to excel at my work in the laundry.
—Margaret Lyons, EW.com, 17 Jan. 2025
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Cover it and put it in the laundry room or some other cool spot.
—al, 18 Nov. 2022
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Toward the back of the home, there's a laundry room, mudroom, and the primary suite.
—Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 14 Oct. 2022
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Salinas put River in the car and grabbed her phone, purse and a bag of clean laundry from the trailer.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 23 Oct. 2022
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The options don’t end there: Rose notes also play well with the smell of fresh laundry and a tinge of salty sea air.
—Jenny Berg, Allure, 1 Feb. 2025
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Bri then returns to the laundry, finds Nick’s missing pants, and puts them in the dryer.
—Emma Soren, Vulture, 10 June 2024
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Down the hall are the laundry room and a guest bathroom, which Smith switched around, saving space in each with barn doors.
—Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
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Joey Bosa suited up, looked nice, no need to do laundry.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
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Even after a spin in the laundry, these jeans still looked good, fit well, and didn’t show any signs of damage.
—Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 4 Mar. 2024
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Obligation – the odd errand, the office deadline, the pile of last week’s laundry – inevitably calls us elsewhere.
—Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Feb. 2025
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The Chiefs have generally been in the middle of the pack since then, though this regular season was a particularly strong one for dodging yellow laundry.
—David K. Li, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2025
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