How to Use washtub in a Sentence

washtub

noun

• Over time, the enzymes in detergents have changed and the physical design of the washtub has evolved.
  — David Kender, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2020
• Meat was sold from a washtub until the business moved to its present location — a shotgun-style house — in 1964.
  — Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• During this siege, several sturgeon in the 5-foot range jumped several times around the boat, landing with a giant whomp and whirl the size of a washtub.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 23 May 2020
• As soon as a cycle ends, empty the machine to prevent a smell from developing in the washtub, which may then be transferred to your clothes and linens.
  — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 25 Oct. 2017
• Take out clean clothes promptly: As soon as a cycle ends, empty the machine to prevent a musty odor from developing in the washtub.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2021
• Big Chicken spent half a year being beaten like a washtub by the president* and the other half running out to get the president* a sandwich.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2018
• The best part of any haircut experience – the shampoo station – is tucked away with lounge seats and relaxing washtubs.
  — orlandosentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• But Dik Browne, in Wilton, worked out of his basement, surrounded by washtubs and laundry hanging on clotheslines—a workspace version of himself.
  — Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 9 Aug. 2017
• Leftover laundry detergent, fabric softener and soil stuck to the dispenser, inner parts and washtub can deposit on clothes, leaving behind marks and stains.
  — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2021
• During warm days, recalls Niels Diffrient, the office suffered from a lack of air conditioning, The solution was filling a massive washtub with a chuck of ice and lemonade, and sometimes, a few bottles of gin.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 8 Nov. 2018
• Their older brother, Robbie, sometimes rakes them out as a courtesy to others, along with the tiny water weeds that grow if allowed, and puts the resulting sludge into a large zinc washtub, after which its fate is unknown to Nell.
  — Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• In addition to playing guitars and other mainstream instruments, your band also uses a washtub and a saw as instruments.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 8 Mar. 2021
• Lozman will be back inside the high court Tuesday, five years after winning a legal battle over a floating home — please don't call it a houseboat — that had the justices ruminating about inner tubes, wooden washtubs and plastic dishpans.
  — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024