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.
Recent Examples on the Web
Built in 1975 on a narrow, 0.77-acre lot along the western edge of Interstate 5, the complex in the 900 block of Chestnut consists of three, two-story apartment buildings with an attached laundry and a small storage room.
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
Editors’ Picks Magnolia’s parents, originally from China, work at Bing Qi Ling Bubbles Laundromat, where Magnolia expects to spend her summer hanging out with Mister Pants, the family dog, while her mom folds piles of laundry and her dad makes deliveries.
—Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 19 May 2024
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Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2024
Editors’ Picks Magnolia’s parents, originally from China, work at Bing Qi Ling Bubbles Laundromat, where Magnolia expects to spend her summer hanging out with Mister Pants, the family dog, while her mom folds piles of laundry and her dad makes deliveries.
—Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 19 May 2024
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“Laundry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundry. Accessed 1 Jun. 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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