plural laundries
1
a
: a room for doing the family wash
b
: a commercial laundering establishment
2
: clothes or linens that have been or are to be laundered
Examples of laundry in a Sentence
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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And Monica and Chandler started being more than friends and doing laundry!
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
Goodwill operates one of the largest laundry facilities in Wisconsin, processing over 13 million pounds of laundry annually for health care providers, the military and clinics throughout Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2024
Postpone doing laundry, washing your dishes or running the dishwasher until the evening once outdoor temperatures have cooled down a bit.
—Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2024
There were a lot of subgroups at Radish, people who did laundry together or worked out together.
—Zoë Bernard, Vox, 20 June 2024
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Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
Goodwill operates one of the largest laundry facilities in Wisconsin, processing over 13 million pounds of laundry annually for health care providers, the military and clinics throughout Wisconsin and northern Illinois.
—La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 6 June 2024
Postpone doing laundry, washing your dishes or running the dishwasher until the evening once outdoor temperatures have cooled down a bit.
—Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2024
There were a lot of subgroups at Radish, people who did laundry together or worked out together.
—Zoë Bernard, Vox, 20 June 2024
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laundry
noun
laun·dry
ˈlȯn-drē 
ˈlän-
plural laundries
1
: clothes or linens that have been or are to be laundered
2
: a place where laundering is done
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