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How to use laundry in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Laundry means a laundering; a washing. Example: “In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.”

Examples of laundry by meaning

nounA laundering; a washing.

  • In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.

nounThat which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.

  • You've left your dirty laundry all over the house.
  • I gave the wash to the laundry.1935, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs., page 69

More sentences with laundry

  • Having washed the plates from dinner, I made an attack on the laundry.From the entry attack
  • I did everything today – washed the dishes, cut the lawn, did the laundry.From the entry everything
  • The clothes smelled whiffy after being left in the damp laundry room.From the entry whiffy
  • If you bring your dirty laundry round on Saturday, I'll wash it for you.From the entry dirty laundry
  • When it comes to laundry detergent, she always buys a name brand, just to be safe.From the entry name brand
  • Washing light laundry with dark may cause your clothes to discolor.From the entry discolor
  • The dishes need washing, the floor needs vacuuming, the laundry needs folding. Get on it!From the entry get on it
  • Unwashed dishes and dirty laundry were strewn about the room.From the entry strewn
  • He heaped the laundry upon the bed and began folding.From the entry heap
  • She would fold laundry at this time of day.From the entry time of day
  • If you don't tell me why you did it, I'll air all your dirty laundry to your boss.From the entry dirty laundry
  • Her LinkedIn includes a laundry list of accomplishments.From the entry LinkedIn
  • Before we moved in together, my partner and I divided up the chores: he cooks and vacuums, and I do the dishes and laundry.From the entry chore
  • We did everything from laundry to house cleaning, washing dishes to cooking, and even marketing.2022 May 14, Fr. Roger Solis, SVD, The Word in Other Words, University of San Carlos. From the entry marketing
  • Open layout includes kitchen, a formal dining-room, living-room, half bath and laundry.2022 May 13, Athol Daily News, volume LXXXVII, number 389, page B9. From the entry living-room
  • Unfolded laundry tabs are the major cause of fabric balding so please use them.2021 April 22, “Tips for Washing Cloth Nappies”, in Ecoshop, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2025. From the entry laundry tab
  • I don't want to throw my underpants in the laundry, because she might see the dried stain.2014 August 7, Jakob Ejersbo, Liberty, Quercus Publishing, →ISBN. From the entry snoregasm
  • Johnny's behind with the laundry and I haven't a collarable shirt.2014, Leona Dalrymple, Diane of the Green Van. From the entry collarable
  • Women went in there to wash all their laundry and clothes.2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 74. From the entry steamie
  • Postparty steps: Pretreat with a heavy-duty liquid laundry detergent or prewash product, then wash.2003, Good Housekeeping, volume 237, page 36. From the entry postparty
  • Since there was no piped water, ghuts (ravines of flowing water) were the laundries of the day.2001, Eugenia O'Neal, From the Field to the Legislature: A History of Women in the ..., page 68. From the entry ghut
  • "Jerry Springer encourages people to show off their filthiest laundry, to misbehave.1998 June 8, Barbara Lippert, “Punchin' Judy”, in New York, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12…. From the entry bup-bup-bup
  • The camera pans slowly across ageless kid stuff: baseball cards, posters, clumps of dirty laundry.1993 December 16, Patricia Davis, “Does Johnny Have a Gun?”, in Washington Post, retrieved 28 Jun 2017. From the entry kid stuff
  • Lavender (the name hails from the laundry, not from the laund).1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire. From the entry laund
  • UNDIRTY— Sign on laundry truck: “Let Us Help You Lead a Clean Life.”1960 December 12, Nashville Banner, volume LXXXIV, number 210, Nashville, Tenn., page 2. From the entry undirty
  • Permanently porcelainize your laundry trays, new or old, at 1⁄2 the cost of new trays.1954, “(advertisement)”, in Popular Science, volume 165, page 93. From the entry porcelainize
  • Don't them laundry queens put out good enough to suit you?1928 December, Our Army, page 19. From the entry put out
  • After the wedding there was singing and concertina-playing in the laundry till late evening.1922, Anton Chekhov, “The Cook's Wedding”, in Constance Garnett, transl., The Cook's Wedding and Other Stories. From the entry wedding
  • Learn how to make out a laundry list and to check it when the laundry comes home.1920, Scouting for Girls: Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts, First Edition, The Girl Scouts, Inc., page 126. From the entry laundry list
  • S.L.M., Ward 20, sleeps in a two-bedded room with D.L.M., over the laundry.1903, Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry - Volume 2. From the entry bedded
  • Always fold back the hook and loop laundry tabs otherwise they will damage your nappies in the wash.2021 April 22, “Tips for Washing Cloth Nappies”, in Ecoshop, archived from the original on 27 Mar 2025. From the entry laundry tab
  • Wherever possible, use mild soaps and laundry detergent – the detergent is significant if you are using washable nappies.2020, Yehudi Gordon, Birth And Beyond, Ebury Publishing, →ISBN, page 532. From the entry washable nappy
  • It needs enough heft to bounce around in the dryer as it fluffs and separate the folds of the wet laundry.2018 February 14, Mary Hunt, “All you need to know to make your own wool dryer balls”, in Star-Herald, page 10B. From the entry dryer ball
  • He still lived at home, his mom did all his laundry and shopping and packed him lunch every morning.2015 November 5, Meghan Campbell, chapter 22, in From the Disastrous Dating Files of Henley Gray, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN…. From the entry momma's boy
  • And despite the laundry list nature of particle physics, the inhabitants of our particle zoos are remarkably simple creatures.2013, Dave Goldberg, “Spin: In which We Investigate Why You Aren’t a Sentient Cloud of Helium and What a Spoonful of Neutron Star Would Do…. From the entry particle zoo
  • Like an office peon whose wife works in a laundry.2011, Shehan Karunatilaka, Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Jonathan Cape, page 260. From the entry peon
  • Synthetic fragrances can contain a laundry list of chemicals — hormone disrupters, petroleum-derived unpronounceables, asthma triggers and on and on.2009 March 13, “Natural Selection”, in New York Times. From the entry unpronounceable

Meaning of laundry

  1. noun A laundering; a washing.
  2. noun A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.
  3. noun That which needs to be, is being, or has been laundered.

Full definition of laundry

Questions about laundry in a sentence

How do you use laundry in a sentence?
Laundry is used as a noun. For example: “In our family of five, we have to do the laundry every other day.”
What is a short sentence with laundry?
“I gave the wash to the laundry.”
What does laundry mean?
Laundry means a laundering; a washing.

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