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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Some of these changes include eliminating free laundry and dry cleaning as well as pushing back the time dinner is served in the office, so employees have to stay later to take advantage of it.
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2026
It was followed by government (mainly education) with 400; other services (laundry, maintenance, religious), also with 400; and financial activities (real estate, insurance, investments) with 200.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Examples include using unfamiliar kitchen appliances and enabling a robot to perform tasks like folding laundry without prior task-specific data.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026
The sewerage district urges residents to save laundry and dishes for another day, take shorter showers and empty rain barrels regularly.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 17 Apr. 2026
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Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2026
It was followed by government (mainly education) with 400; other services (laundry, maintenance, religious), also with 400; and financial activities (real estate, insurance, investments) with 200.
—Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2026
Examples include using unfamiliar kitchen appliances and enabling a robot to perform tasks like folding laundry without prior task-specific data.
—Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026
The sewerage district urges residents to save laundry and dishes for another day, take shorter showers and empty rain barrels regularly.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 17 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for laundry
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“Laundry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/laundry. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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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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