| 单词 | laundry |
| 例句 | My mother took in laundry for other families in town to help pay the bills. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z His laundry sat in the hamper, except the sweatshirt Maggie had draped over the foot of the bed. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z When I got done with work, I dawdled putting my apron in the laundry. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They leave me alone in the room with laundry I’ll never have to worry about washing and summer course work I’ll never have to finish—or start. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I shook myself off, clutching my limp and torn garments, and headed for Perilee’s to bring in the dry laundry and start supper. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She sighs and looks at the clothes still outside of the laundry basket. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I double-checked the laundry room and the back door and the elevator. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z In my eagerness to please, I accidentally complimented chipped baseboards and sacks of laundry waiting to be taken to the cleaners. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She raised an eyebrow to punctuate her point then walked down the hall, and I heard her descend the cellar stairs to the laundry room. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “You won’t help with our laundry service because you don’t want to get in trouble. How do you spell Boy Scout?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z "Sunny! Ma wants you! Come help with the laundry!" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sounds of multiple machines spinning laundry around fill the room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Once the third aunt who worked at the laundry ran out and bought us bags of candy to hold over our noses; my mother was dismembering skunk on the chopping block. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I spray them with good-smelling water she keeps in her laundry room before I set the iron to them. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Her mom picked up her laundry basket and left. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z A train whistle screeched and was echoed inside Bronwyn’s trunk, where Miss Peregrine was being tossed around like laundry in the wash. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z At the laundry Moon Orchid hovered so close that there was barely room between her and the hot presses. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She sets a laundry basket on my bed. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The laundry was a humid inferno, the work as monotonous as it was uncomfortable. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I roll up the top into a ball and bury it at the bottom of the laundry hamper. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was sustained, though, by seeing her once more reel in laundry— elegant hand over elegant hand—drop the clothespins in a bucket on the railing, then fold shirts, sheets, and towels. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “There was a cabin on stilts with laundry hung out to dry. I gathered my courage and I stole some sheets for you to wear, Archivist! Here, sir!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z So she picked up one of the strips of paper and read it aloud, first in English: “Do not fight and air your dirty laundry in public. To the victor go the soils.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t sell the shirts. I put them through with our laundry. It was Piper’s idea.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I had regular chores like folding laundry and setting the table. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z There’d be no nosy neighbors watching, no motorcycles and cars, no sheets and towels and laundry. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then use the pay phone by the laundry room. Call her collect. She’ll love that.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I say, throwing my Chicago clothes into the laundry hamper while scouting for new hiding places for my agendas and notebooks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Your clothes were soaking wet, like a laundry which had not been wrung out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z At the back of the property was a shed where the coal bins were kept for the laundry fires for boiling the white clothes, a shed known to be haunted. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z From my vantage point at the laundry room window, I could see a thin stream of electric vehicles crawling along the cracked asphalt, carrying goods and workers into the city. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He bent to pick up another piece of laundry. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Suddenly, British customers were giving the laundries in Philadelphia rush orders to deliver clothing “finished or unfinished.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Their white trousers and shirts were as clean as the laundry girls’ hands could make them, and the orange glow made the men look like ghosts emerging from the dark. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When the tub was partly full, I carried it over to the elephants’ pathway, at the entrance, put it on the ground, and poured in most of a gallon of “bloody Jik”—laundry bleach. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His other, stained, was in the bundle of laundry to be washed, and he, delighted with the game, was running through arched legs to find his father. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It’s the ironing room, tucked in between a storage room and the laundry room. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z No one would think to look for them before that, and he could just take the laundry up and fold it in the apartment. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I settle on Emilika’s laundry pot as the best weapon in the room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Dude, we gotta bounce before she makes us do laundry or something,” Sneaky says, taking his plate to the sink. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z From then on Moon Orchid only visited the laundry late in the day when the towels came out of the dryers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I race downstairs to the laundry room, as far away from Jennifer’s ears as I can get. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z It is like we built a laundry chute. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Once I buttoned up my play dress, I left my good one in the laundry basket. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z She made a mental note to put that one in the laundry bin at the first opportunity. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A woman hung laundry on a line stretched between her house and the next one. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z After lunch, Brave Orchid asked her husband if he and the children could handle the laundry by themselves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At first the starch was mainly used for laundry—to make shirts stiff. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And a washerwoman came on Monday and spent the whole day boiling the clothes in the dripping laundry shed out back. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He dropped me like I was a bag of laundry. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I know this is weird, but I make my bed every single day, even though the rest of my room is a hellscape of paper and laundry and books and clutter. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z My mom puts on her jacket and hoists the laundry basket onto her hip. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z It smells faintly of perfume, which is like a mix of fresh laundry, pear, and spring rain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He drank a cup of coffee and walked downtown to open up the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I slid out of bed and made my way to the window in the laundry room—one that faced out back. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I guess it was there so families could do their laundry during long stays, but I had my own mission going on. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She is pulling laundry out of the dryer now. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z It was smaller than the laundry and stank of garbage. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I done laundry,” said the dead girl, and then the morning sunlight flooded the wasteland, and Bod was alone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z If I were a boy, would I be staying home to fold laundry and iron clothes? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And so does his laugh, and the passenger seat of his car, and his favorite hoodie, with the string lost in the laundry long ago. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m going to get started on the laundry. Call if you need me!” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “Well, that has nothing to do with us. I don’t need to know about other people’s laundry.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “He broke up with her. Janae really liked him, and he dropped her like a sack of dirty laundry. So I see how you Darcy boys do,” I say, crossing my arms. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The memory of his face when he saw me and Miles in the laundry carts fills my mind. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Many of the storekeepers invited sitting in their stores, but we did not have sitting because the laundry was hot and because it was outside Chinatown. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One of my daily chores is to wash the family’s laundry. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Arm nodded, so Eye took down the calendar and erased Take clothes to laundry and wrote in Important case for General Matsika instead. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Then Gregor remembered the pile of laundry he was supposed to do. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At first the young woman didn’t want to accept the ride, so Abuelo parked his taxi and offered to carry the laundry wherever she needed to go. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Among the many scapegoats chosen were elderly women living alone, who were charged with witchcraft: Kepler’s mother was carried away in the middle of the night in a laundry chest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I can eat haphazardly now, snack on junk food and takeouts without worrying about balanced meals, go to bed when I like, let my dirty laundry rot, neglect the dishes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I preferred to crash in the laundry room anyway. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I used to give you little things to go hustle—laundry bags or whatever—and you’d go sell ’em and pocket the money. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She carried a basket of laundry fresh from the clothesline and set it down before scooping the baby from me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I have to do my own laundry now, and once a week, Hana and I have to cook dinner. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z This day he ventured closer to downtown, passing families wading through the water, pushing laundry tubs full of their possessions. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She stayed home from the laundry day after day. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Your laundry problem is quite a bit more complicated than that of a hotel. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We pass milpitas, and big spiky maguey plants with white sheets and colorful laundry drying upon them. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I can see row after row of apartments, each floor cluttered with laundry hanging out to dry on the balcony. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When we’re alone in the sweltering laundry room, she asks me how I know I’m in love. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy helped his mother carry more and more baskets of laundry to and from the big houses; the clotheslines grew longer and longer. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t mess me all up! This was just delivered from the laundry!” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Pecola picked up the laundry bag, heavy with wet clothes, and we stepped hurriedly out the door. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked to the laundry building next, then made a stop by the wash houses to test the faucets and make sure the lights were still working. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The neighbors kept sweeping their doorways, hanging their laundry, and preparing dinner. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z We used Fab laundry detergent to wash our hair because soap and shampoo were too mild to cut the sulfur and oil in the water. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baylor was sitting at the table sipping coffee with a pile of laundry in a basket on the floor next to her. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I started the washer and we walked out of the laundry room and crashed on the couch in front of the TV. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll get you some wine tomorrow. Meat, too. I told him if he doesn’t share the stores with you and me, he’ll be doing his own laundry and mending soon.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She could work at the laundry from 6:30 a.m. until midnight, shifting a baby from an ironing table to a shelf between packages, to the display window, where the ghosts tapped on the glass. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm going to find the laundry, too," I said. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When the call ends I feel absolutely wrung out like laundry. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z David always smells like a nose-tickling combination of the floral laundry detergent his mom buys and the minty soap he uses. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z One night when the laundry was so busy that the whole family was eating dinner there, crowded around the little round table, my throat burst open. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I don't like to pass it when I visit the laundry. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’m not sure how we do laundry, which might kill me because I love the feel of fresh sheets, but the touch of this internment-chic bedding doesn’t exactly scream high thread count. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z By the time they got to the laundry, the boiler was screaming hot and the machines were ready. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The battered French girl and I were taken together down through the cellars and out to a little stone courtyard that must once have been the hotel’s laundry. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I tossed it across the room—Sir Fig Newton scrambled off my desk after it—and it bounced off my ever-growing pile of smells-pretty-rank laundry. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Those were our successful days, when so much laundry came in, my mother did not have to pick tomatoes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ron turned to stare incredulously at Harry as his mother hoisted the laundry basket and the teetering clock into her arms and stormed out of the room. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Uhmma’s hands washed our dinner dishes, cleaned the kitchen floor with a rag, folded load after load of laundry. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z But at lunch when I see her in the cafeteria with the laundry bags, I find myself drifting over there. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The chicken coop squatted between the pigsty and the mango tree, a branch of which held one end of Mami’s laundry line, the other end stretched to the trunk of an acerola bush. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “I’m Joy, and this is Malia. My mom’s still at work, and my dad is downstairs in the laundry room. He’ll be back in a minute. Do you, um, want to come in?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z He rides Amtrak to Boston and then switches to a commuter rail, his duffel bag stuffed with course books and dirty laundry. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She lifted a wicker basket to the cedar railing and began drawing in her family’s laundry. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z My sister was making out in the laundry room with some senior. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z When the laundry was clean and dry, Perry repacked the suitcase. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like a laundry crime has been committed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He put the lamp on the table by the laundry basket and looked in on the small sleeping faces of the babies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s as big as Mama’s big white laundry hamper back home and seems like she’s always got about ten hundred things piled up in there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or you can help Betty Jean with the laundry. It’s up to you. I’ll bring home a reading list and a math book to keep you busy after that.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I finish up my laundry and think of a plan. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “If you were a bit more conscientious about doing the laundry, the description of that sheet would be somewhat different.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Wednesday night is laundry night—the clothes blowing clean on the line above my grandfather's garden. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z His favorite sandwich is peanut butter and honey, and he’s nice to his little brother, but his mom still does his laundry and he drives his dad’s old Mercedes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z After the sweeping, she had laundry to hang. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Dadi’s laundry closet/room was just big enough for a cot and a table. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid made breakfast for the children who would take the first laundry shift; the ones going to summer school would take the afternoon and night shifts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nivea, the latest of our laundry maids, was "black-black": my mother always said it twice to darken the color to full, matching strength. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “They do laundry on Tuesdays and Fridays. Who gave you your tour when you came in?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “A dream! I fell asleep in the laundry room and this is the same old crazy dream!” thought Gregor. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Her clothes smell faintly of the Smeaths’ house, a mixture of scouring powder and cooked turnips and slightly rancid laundry, and the earth under porches. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And then I would help Father carry the dirty laundry back. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z "I can smell your socks from way over here. Don'tcha ever send them to the laundry?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Now that her sister and niece were visiting, Brave Orchid went to the laundry later. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She said it was better for our posture and easier on our spines, but there was no way we kids were going to be caught dead walking through Welch with laundry bags on our heads. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z From breakfast at the automat they went to laundry at the laundromat. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Each night, she added to her sack of dirty laundry at the hotel, refolding any clothes she could stand to wear another day in a stack on top of her open suitcase. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Something of the expression he’d had when we met in the laundry yard came back to him and he took my hands. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z You have to pass the closet to get to the laundry room, and people in this building do laundry at all hours. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “And she put a stack of clean laundry on the bed for you.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z His mother had had the people read her the story from their newspapers when she carried the laundry. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d say Violet washed and ironed those handkerchiefs because, crazy as she was, raggedy as she became, she couldn’t abide dirty laundry. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I pour detergent into the little cup in the machine, close the door, and use the laundry card my parents gave me to turn it on. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I'd look at the laundry hamper or beer cooler, thinking that if it came down to it, Mister Mancini could hide just about anywhere. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I did laundry so we’ll have fresh hand towels in the bathroom. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z With more people under one roof, laundry day began early and clean sheets were a priority. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z She didn’t notice my seat belt wasn’t fastened, and neither did I. She traveled up and down the stairs doing several loads of laundry—I’m awfully messy—and I guess she had started fixing dinner. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I carried the big laundry basket out to the sheets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything smells the same: the whole house, like cloves and laundry powder, the way it always did, the odor particular to the Vos family, the one I know well enough to have it be comforting. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Dad excuses himself to go fold the laundry. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Sunday evening at a quarter to eight we trooped upstairs carrying the big laundry basket, which had been decorated with cutouts and bows made of pink and blue carbon paper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There was unfolded laundry in the living room, and the breakfast dishes were still in the sink. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She did the laundry, and balanced the checkbook, and, with Eliot’s help, vacuumed the inside of the car. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The place is littered with empty bottles, pizza boxes, dirty laundry, and old magazines. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Below us, Wazir Akbar Khan’s white- walled, flat-topped houses gleamed in the sunshine, the laundry hanging on clotheslines in their yards stirred by the breeze to dance like butterflies. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Her brows twist like laundry being wrung dry. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He smelled like he always did—like laundry detergent—but she could also make out the traces of a new cologne. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Others played their hunches: addresses, license numbers of passing cars, any numbers on letters, telegrams, laundry slips, numbers from anywhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Her skin was warm, and she smelled like laundry detergent and frost, as fresh as the winter air. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The broken sugar bowl used for an ashtray, the damp spot on the ceiling where the roof leaked, the laundry box in the corner. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z People living along the tracks are put out when migrants take clothing from laundry lines, a police chief says—but only because they don’t ask first. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Mike took his football laundry bag to school today. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z One by one, I empty each tube of paint into the laundry sink. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Her other preferred companion was Idabelle, the one Inside Cat, whose tour of duty included the kitchen, the pantry, and the laundry, and whose commission it was to keep mice out of the flour bin. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I stuff the dress back into the laundry basket and grab at the black collar peeking out from the bottom. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z As for Ralph — by the time Callie was crawling and making nests for herself in the laundry basket, her father had moved on to writing up his results. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Women agents who worked in the laundries passed the word. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My room smells like dirty laundry and old candles, not spices or burnt sugar. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z I know his mom still does his laundry. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I took the stairs to the basement in case he was doing laundry, but the machines were silent. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We ended up at the Dollar Tree, mostly because the day before, someone had stolen our entire load of laundry from the washing machine at the Laundromat. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The supplies I needed were most likely in the kitchen or laundry. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “They can do what they want to her,” Miles said one day at the end of February, after the triplets had made Celia carry all the fishy-smelling towels to the laundry without a cart. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “Good. And I sneaked these spare robes out of the laundry,” Her-mione said, holding up a small sack. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I laugh, remembering how fun it was to race the laundry carts. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She wasn’t as hard to take at the laundry as at home, though. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I go around the room with my laundry sack, stuffing a weekend’s worth of clothes inside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Two women to work the laundry, and Caesar and Prince to join the field gangs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And nobody else was talking either; no mention about the laundry workers who appeared and disappeared; no mention about the sitter. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When a train heaved across it, the black steam engine swollen to bursting like the boiler at the laundry, the birds flew up like Halloween. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I go outside, I find Piper stuffing extra clothes in our laundry bags. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad didn’t drive and I didn’t have a license yet, so I did more cooking and cleaning and shopping and laundry while Mom drove. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “His uniform hasn’t come back from the laundry yet.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z My mother said she used a laundry iron to flatten it out before pasting it next to hers in the scrapbook. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “There’s a bathroom upstairs at the end of the hall. Next to the laundry room,” Oliver says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z They entered a dark, surprisingly clean kitchen, its walls lined with huge vats that looked better suited to laundry than cooking. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I let myself in through the side door to the garage and went into the laundry room. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For extra money women in the barrio took in laundry or ironing or cooked for men with no wives. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z One group of women loaded soiled laundry into the enormous boilers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The east side of Epidram was a maze of shacks and narrow alleys cluttered with old lobster cages and lines of damp laundry. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Now Henry watched Naomi as she took the laundry down from the line, admiring how her body moved under the thin yellow dress, the dress she’d made from his Christmas gift. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And she was behind on the cleaning and the laundry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother tells me this as we fold laundry, white towels separated from the colored ones. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z “Great, Day One and I’m looking forward to a trip to the laundry room,” Gregor thought. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I had a basket full of clean laundry next to me, and I handed Mom shirts to fold. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z That’s why I cook and clean and vacuum and take care of Ford and do laundry and take out the trash and check the mail. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Glass abruptly leaned her weight forward, without getting up, and reached out and picked up something from the top of the laundry hamper. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z As I finish chewing, the front door opens and Dad walks in, carrying an empty laundry basket. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Maybe tonight, after everyone else is asleep...Hazelle often works late into the night finishing up laundry. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z I don’t get to hear more about it because Nora’s phone alarm sounds and she has to grab her laundry. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z We can do our laundry in the ole lady’s house and eat the vegetables from the side- yard garden. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Everything else—the piles of dirty laundry, the opened Doritos bags, the empty cans of generic soda pop, two ratty old chairs, and a moldering beanbag chair—was dispensable, an afterthought, props. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do the laundry every morning. Then my uncle comes and picks me up on his way to work, and I hang around his office.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “I don't think so. Maybe I forgot to fold my laundry.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She put a stack of laundry on Chess’s dresser. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Samuel pointed to the bundle in a laundry basket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother, who sews lace collars on my company softball T-shirts when she does my laundry. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Safer posts me in the little hallway between the laundry room and the elevator. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She folds laundry, peeking over at me, while I break down some diaper boxes. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But then it got cold, and the one time we did our laundry, it froze on the porch. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A short time later the laundry girl’s mother parked across the lot. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z As they walked back to the laundry, Brave Orchid showed her sister where to buy the various groceries and how to avoid Skid Row. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The women have a schedule that rotates once a week: cooking, laundry, cleaning, washing the floors. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The oldest sister, Aliya, is cross-legged on the carpeted floor, folding a massive load of laundry. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “Here you go, Ivy,” Robin said, motioning toward a laundry basket full of clothes perched on the armchair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Your mother ever teach you how to do laundry?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Pilate chose the laundry and walked in, saying to the three young girls elbow deep in water there, “Can I stay here tonight?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s to show everyone she doesn’t have to work with her hands. I’d like to stick them into a nice hot tub of laundry.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I took her pile of clean laundry and walked up the porch steps. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The books changed, the dirty laundry rotated items, but the fundamentals remained constant. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Just then Min’s wife came around the house with a basket of laundry. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He mumbled something about the laundry arid hurried off to collect it. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Find a warm pipe to hide behind in a laundry room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Witchery, you can be sure. She and that servant—that base laundry maid—are surely conspiring in some evil,” growls Durufle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A suit hung over the back of a chair, and laundry was piled up near the bed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He tried to figure out how much time had passed since he was in the laundry room. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sorting in the laundry, making beds in white folks’ houses, stemming in the tobacco plant—those were black jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Mom was folding my laundry while watching this TV show called The View when I got home. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She shoves an armful of laundry at him. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But instead the display is homey and cheerful, and, with the pickles and olives across the aisle and the bath and laundry soaps adjoining, the rows upon rows of insecticides are displayed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Many were there to provide various services to the men who did— doing their laundry, cooking their meals at the mess hall, selling them various sundries, disposing of their trash. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That was the summer I taught myself how to do laundry. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z She shoved past him and pushed the laundry basket onto the porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A sign hanging out in front said, SAI FONG—CHINESE NOVELTIES, and printed underneath, in smaller letters, was “also do hand laundry.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mom, please tell me you did laundry this weekend.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The majority of the women who found their way to the military laundry room had left behind jobs as domestic servants or as stemmers in the tobacco factories. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then I put on coffee to boil and brought out my garbage-bucket laundry, which had been jouncing for two days, and rinsed the detergent out at the edge of the lake. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The scent of laundry soap, old books, and double chocolate pecan cookies from the Vanderbeekers’ floor gave way to the smell of Miss Josie’s Southern Rose perfume on the second floor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z We’d never had one before, but with Mother going back to work, we needed someone to do the laundry and the cooking. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The new laundry maid, Nivea, was using them up inefficiently, without a system. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He says, “Mason, is this room growing laundry?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The first floor is basically a large garage and laundry room and kitchen. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Thus, ’twas with general acclamation that we greeted the arrival of two women to collect our laundry this day. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Now she does the laundry once a month. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, she spent like a week looking for it in every closet, in the laundry room, everywhere.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z "In the laundry room. How much did you read?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I done laundry while Quincy cooked up something. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mama’s got a full laundry basket tucked under one arm, but she reaches out with her free hand. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z A doghouse sat rotting and half collapsed in one corner, and near it a toppled laundry line was gradually being swallowed by brush. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z In the corners, on the stairs, ducking beneath the laundry strung on ropes from door to door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z But a mere laundry list of every possible difference does not constitute an answer to Yali’s question. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Another woman in Dorothy’s situation might have seen taking the laundry job as unthinkable, regardless of the economics. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The girls among us focused on the obvious fact that a Mexican girl who didn’t know how to do laundry had to be just about the most unsanitary creature on earth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The side entrance put them into a laundry room, which didn’t seem very different from Grandma’s laundry room except for a tiny detail. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z That weekend, I’m in the laundry room throwing my dirty clothes in one of the washing machines, when Miles walks in, dragging a laundry bag behind him, plus a small container of detergent. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The head of the laundry was a woman named Amelia who’d known the Valentines in Virginia and followed two years later. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We would hike eight miles, get a room, have a shower, phone home, do laundry, eat dinner, buy groceries, watch TV, sleep in a bed, eat breakfast, return to the trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z But off they went in a ground-covering trot, with princess, maids, and laundry drawn behind. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve also scrubbed the laundry and the house, been to the market, worked two shifts, and helped extract a little girl from the ghetto. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Not so good. All she wants to do is knit and listen to audiobooks, and nobody did the laundry.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Well, the Daily Mail has always had a bit of an affinity for airing our dirty laundry. They, er, they gave my sister this nickname years ago. ‘ Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z "Well, with so few things," she said, "you'll need to wash your laundry often. You just give your clothes to me and I'll take care of them for you." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z As the children grew, Ethel woke them at dawn to clean the house, cook, shop, and do the laundry. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I mean, that honey would still need to be delivered and vegetables would have to be picked and laundry would need to be done when I was so miserable.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The laundry plan isn’t even finished and Piper’s already hatching another? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why do you need me for this laundry plan of yours, anyway? Why do you care?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He hid pastries in the toolshed and the laundry room and then wondered where all the ants were coming from. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Small talk of husbands, children, lives back home, or the ever-present war rose above the thunder and hum of the giant laundry boilers and dryers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I told her she could stay in my taxi with her laundry and I would wait outside until the rain stopped. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “I talked to Miles yesterday in the laundry room. I didn’t flat-out ask him if he wrote the messages in the Hideout, but I talked to him about other stuff. He’s so funny.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z This information comes from the laundry strips from several shirts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Law enforcement arrested more than a hundred people for operating laundries without licenses, and every one of the arrestees was Chinese. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The lance corporal looks around the room—the coal stove, the hanging laundry, the undersize children—with equal measures of condescension and hostility. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s still hidden in the laundry bag beneath my “anonymously” donated new collection of underclothes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She neatly lines up little bags of beans, sugar, and laundry soap—items a local grocery store donates because the packages are damaged and cannot be sold. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Women looked like great sea snails—the corded wood, babies, and laundry they carried were the whorls on their backs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z While other people put on their best clothes and go strolling in the sun, we scrub, sweep and do the laundry. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Joy has laundry downstairs, so I’m going to go with her to put it in the dryer. Be back in a few!” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Robin set the plates down on her desk and moved the laundry basket to the floor, freeing up the armchair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We were working at the laundry when a delivery boy came from the Rexall drugstore around the corner. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I am reluctant to leave, but I am supposed to work in the laundry rooms, and I don’t want the Amity to say I’m not fulfilling my part of the deal they offered us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She washed the laundry in the river, making sure she didn’t break any buttons this time. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He’d work out something when they got back to the laundry room, but the sooner that happened, the simpler the story could be. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I can tell because they have no laundry with them. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Muff stopped by to bring the girl’s family a cake and found her up to her elbows in laundry—in the bathtub of all places. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Clothesline code: Anna Strong hangs her laundry in a way that tells fellow spies the location of the cove where a Culper Ring messenger waits. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She squeezed the water from her laundry and hastily wiped her hands upon her apron as she ran down the stairs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Tall apartments rose overhead, their open windows overflowing with orchid plants, laundry, and chatting neighbors. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Pattie forged on: "I saw a notice on the board in the laundry room. Unit 22. Just down the hall. Looking for a roommate." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It seemed pointless to me to try to do laundry in a sink with hand soap, but there was no bathtub or laundry detergent for him to use. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Perilee had planted the notion that there were two or three bachelor neighbors who might pay me to do their laundry. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Jesper and Wylan debated which kinds of explosives might be assembled from the prison laundry supplies and if they could get their hands on some gunpowder in the embassy sector. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Grumpily he folded his laundry, put it away, and straightened his room. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Later, as she was doing laundry, she regretted that she had sneaked around in his room. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Her mom opened the closet and took out a stack of towels and a laundry basket full of socks. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Down in the laundry room, Gregor sorted clothes as best he could. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Imagine a winter sweater that’s been dragged through the mud and left in the laundry hamper for a week. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Take them to the laundry chute in the hall. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The boiler would rest, and no ghost would know there were Chinese asleep in their laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she was downstairs in the makeshift darkroom she’d rigged up in the basement laundry room, developing rolls of film or making prints. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then Carlos lifts the laundry basket and carries it upstairs. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Not 50 loud, or we’ll get our mouths -washed out -with laundry soap.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z After I hung up, I helped Betty Jean fold the laundry and do the dishes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But how would they pay for food, where would they do their laundry, where would they bathe? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She’s standing in the yard in a cornflower blue dress hanging laundry on the line. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z For my family, this not only meant they would have convenient lodging, but they would also have access to a kitchen and laundry machines. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The woman dropped her clothespins and laundry right there in the dirt and, without saying anything, ran for her car. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They thought we were beggars without a home who lived in back of the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s talking to a woman who has a tall, black rolling cart next to her that overflows with bags of laundry. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Please find out from Corporal Snark if he put laundry soap in the sweet potatoes again,” he requested furtively. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She is the color of a bar of naphtha laundry soap, she is like the little brown piece left at the end of the wash, the hard little bone, my sister. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I hate doing laundry, and a few pennies seems like a fair price for dealing with flea-infested blankets. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I always check with everyone to see if no one else wants the lamp a certain night, and I never hog my turn at the window for fresh air or drying laundry. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is it?” he asked as he reached the dressing table, which was heaped high with what looked and smelled like dirty laundry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She had folded a load of laundry written an email, searched her massive psychology textbook for answers to the final exam questions to see if she had gotten them right. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z After dinner, Arturo pulled bucket after bucket of water out of the well in the courtyard to fill up the enormous bathing trough in the laundry room. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z How they’d made her wash laundry outside in the cold until her face went numb and her fingertips burned. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “You asked me to stall your mom when you were going through Mr. X’s laundry. I looked like an idiot and got brown goop on my leg.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In that case, decided in 1886, the Court unanimously overturned convictions of two Chinese men who were operating laundries without a license. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A laundry list of at least 14 explanatory factors has been proposed by historians of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He goes over to a rolling laundry cart that’s in the corner of the room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z She smelled like knockoff Ivory soap and powdered laundry detergent from a yellow box labeled “Laundry Detergent.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Gloria had been working in the laundry of an indigo plantation when John Valentine met her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Or would anyone in our building pay me to do laundry? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Whenever Dad starts telling that story, my mother goes out to stack the dishes or fold the laundry. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Each evening after I showered in my hotel room, I would carry my dirty laundry down the street where I joined the family for dinner. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Even when I saw the convicts unload the laundry from the boats, it was boring. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Whiskers pranced around my feet in the snow, batting at a clothespin that had tumbled out of the laundry basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z And then Kelton says, “There’s nothing scary about a body bag. They’re for transport and to prevent the spread of disease. I have one in my room; I use it for laundry.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I usually hate the days I'm trapped in the laundromat with my mother, but right now I would give anything to be staring at laundry spinning in circles. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Some evenings he'd sit clipping coupons for the cereals we liked and the laundry detergent Mama used. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Ma was back to taking in laundry, which meant I was back to delivering it. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Pattie steps back as Dell sputters: "I'm .. . behind on the laundry!" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z San Francisco had denied licenses to all Chinese applicants, but granted licenses to all but one of the non-Chinese laundry operators who applied. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When I get on the boat, there she is with three laundry bags. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother took one home from the laundry, and I saw him looking over our photographs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He oversaw everything that wasn’t under direct control of the masters: the kitchens, the laundry, the stables, the stockrooms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When the phone rang in the Nelsonville house, maybe my mother was out hanging laundry on the line or down in the kitchen speaking softly with her mother-in-law, Grace, missing her own mama back home. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z He’s wearing so much clothing he looks like a walking pile of laundry! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z We have a maid who comes to our house every day to do the laundry, cooking, and cleaning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I just turned around and told her to keep the door dosed and don’t stay in the tub too long and bring her towels down to the laundry when she was through.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the windows were open, with various items of laundry hanging out to dry. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “Okay,” Piper says, “and I just wanted to explain something else too. Helping me with the laundry isn’t against the warden’s rules.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Pale and shaky, he moved about the laundry working as hard as any of us; but after a while he began to get snappish again, and to sneer at things. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z "Don't be surprised if you get packages of my laundry." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z My father, white shirt sleeves rolled up, smiles in front of a wall of clean laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve put some of Anthony’s old clothes on the hamper. And drop those— whatever they are—into the laundry basket.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But the were-person would stalk down our street; his thick face smiled between the lettering on the laundry window, and when he saw me working, he shouldered inside. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the last set of stairs to the top floor, Joseph ducked beneath faded, tattered laundry that hung from lines like ghosts. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “The faster we deliver the laundry, the faster we can get in the shade.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything from silk robes to chopsticks to packages of hand laundry littered the shelves and chairs. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Disappointed, Joseph slowly climbed the stairs, ducking beneath the tattered laundry that hung across the landing, as if it had been put out to dry a century ago and forgotten. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It was cold in the house, and the air smelled of mold and cigarettes and unwashed laundry. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There were solid black trunks and flimsy tan suitcases bound with thin rope and more laundry bags than she could count. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He bends and looks in the laundry basket at my feet. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She has become too weak to work in the laundry. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The woman who hung out laundry was now sweeping the dust from her house out the door. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z When his mother returned laundry to the big houses, she asked the people to read her the court news from their newspapers. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When urban renewal tore down my parents’ laundry and paved over our slum for a parking lot, I only made up gun and knife fantasies and did nothing useful. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When Briony returned from one of her visits to the laundry, he asked her, “Has he had the spanking?” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Jesper had expected the rest of the crew to be collecting demo supplies in the big laundry room already. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then one day, he wrote, he noticed a young woman carrying several bags of laundry on a quiet street just around the corner from El Malecón. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Without even thinking, I dive fully into the linen closet, squeezing myself next to the laundry hamper, Rolf’s rumpled uniform clutched in my fists. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Late at night when we walked home from the laundry, they should have been sleeping behind locked doors, not overflowing into the streets in front of the benevolent associations, all alit. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now our cubicle looked as if a great laundry bag had exploded and then been sprayed with fine dust. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She should go down once more to the laundry to see whether the trials of Jackson were at an end. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z My clothes were wrinkled even though we owned a laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be enough merely to see her, as it had been in the fields or when he’d hid behind the cedar log and watched her fold her family’s laundry. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “And fold that laundry for me, would you?” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Ma did their laundry, so I had offered to watch the baby. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z The family employed a full-time housekeeper to help with laundry, cleaning, and cooking. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I poked my head into the twins’ room, humoring my sisters as they sorted through a pile of unfolded laundry in the middle of the full-size bed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Mom steps over the yarn and heads to the laundry room. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z When the laundry is dry, Dad sits next to me on the couch to fold, stacking everything on the coffee table in front of us. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I knew I was too old, but I snuggled close to Dad anyway and breathed deep into his shirt, trying to memorize his familiar smell of laundry detergent, peppermint gum, and sweat. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z When she finished she leaned against the corner post for a moment, scratching her neck and looking at the stars, then smelling the dampness in the fresh laundry. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I went to the front of the laundry and worked so hard that I impolitely did not take notice of her leaving. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama says from the corner of the room where she’s dumped out a mound of laundry. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z She emerges from the laundry room with a smile. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z In the warm bakery, steam rises from the laundry, and sleeves and skirt folds that were stiff with frost now hang limp. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The light seemed to change, growing gray as it filtered through laundry lines. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Maybe I needed to tone down my part in it, become more responsible, listen to Mamá—wash some dishes or do some laundry for a change. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z My mom doesn’t have any hours at the restaurant today, and I find her at home sorting through the mountain of laundry while Hector takes clothes out of the pile and flings them around. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z As with housing, blacks kept a laundry list of grievances over unfair white business practices. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Long ropes strung across the playground were covered with still more da-zi-bao, looking like laundry hung out to dry. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d grabbed a bunch of laundry detergent bottles from the garbage spill, but we didn’t need them. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee got up and went to the laundry basket and looked down at the babies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I go in the laundry room, get my coat and my pocketbook. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Oh. Hello,” Dad says with a laugh as he sets the laundry basket on the floor and rubs Ziggy’s head. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Charley, having explored the area, sat at my feet, his fringed ears blowing like laundry on a line. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They trudged past darter birds on the tops of trees, drying their sodden wings spread out like laundry against the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She is always sucking her teeth at what I’m wearing or making some comment about my weight, even though she’s more floppy and misshapen than a sack of laundry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The door opened and we stepped through it into a laundry room. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I just have to hang out this last bit of laundry.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And then, as the cat gained on me, I broke into a mad run, scrambled up the back steps, slammed shut the back door that led through the laundry room to the house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I folded and put away all the laundry and chopped up the onions for dinner. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They followed me through the laundry room that was also a mudroom for all our coats and boots, and then into the family room, where they returned to their still-warm spots on our couch. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Finally, on Sunday evening he took a pile of laundry to her room and stood at the door, tongue-tied. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z They would have their laundry strung between two saplings in a field of fireweed and dandelions. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He tells me stories about how his dad would hide treasure around the apartment—how the treasure was always a jar of quarters they used for laundry. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The woman who lived there was hanging her laundry on the clothesline. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I’d get work as a scullery maid, or move into the orphanage and do laundry. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The laundry would be clean, the gray wood floors sprinkled and swept with water and wet sawdust. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She handed me a wad of money that looked like it had been through the laundry. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I return Walden to the center of my desk and take my dust cloth to my closet to drop it in the laundry bin. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z For the purposes of this book, the key question about the laundry list is whether such factors differed systematically from continent to continent and thereby led to continental differences in technological development. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The pile of laundry already in the basket is pretty big, but I dig around in the leftover clothes until I find Aurora’s pink sparkly leggings that desperately need to be washed. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I’d caught Mama humming while she folded some of the laundry. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I went into his room to get the wet pajamas, to take them to the laundry room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I was pretty sure my key was in the pocket of a pair of jeans I wore Wednesday, under a pile of clothes in the laundry room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The laundry room was both one of the wars obscure crannies and a microcosm of the war itself, a sophisticated, efficient machine capable of processing eighteen thousand bundles of laundry each week. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She took a flight back to Connecticut, went to the hotel, and personally searched the laundry room until she found it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He did the sweeping, swabbing and all the laundry. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The second they realized the laundry boy was no longer in the laundry room they would comb the area. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The laundry would become a cozy new home, almost safe from the night footsteps, the traffic, the city outside. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He did some of the laundry, most of the cooking, and all the lifting and carrying. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z He hates to do laundry and has started to borrow from my mom’s closet when he’s running low on clean clothes. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Just in case the laundry hasn’t been done, and the old woman is about to pitch a fit. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The other long-term residents, whom I encounter at the communal laundry shed, are blue-collar people with uniforms and overalls to wash, and generally quiet at night. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been tearful confrontations in the laundry room, over the folded sheets. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “They belong to the laundry down the street.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid placed an apple crate on the sidewalk in front of the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It should have been crowded with playing children, chickens and pigs, but was quiet save for the noises made by a tired woman hanging out laundry. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She does not understand the English that sounds perfect in my head and then comes out messy as the can of spaghetti Uhmma lets me eat on Saturdays if I help with the laundry. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z And there’s a bathroom and a little laundry room with a fridge. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Just buy the toothpaste or laundry detergent, and get on with it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “No, but I’ll send word to your laundry if he does come here.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They packed their gray-looking laundry back into their pockets and walked to the door of the laundromat. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I put the bucket away in the Drinkers’ laundry room. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z At the corner of Oliver Street, she dodged a group of washers trudging along with bags of laundry, and some movers carrying away a broken table. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When Desdemona did the laundry, she found scraps of paper in Lefty’s pockets, covered with mathematical figures. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She had heated the leftovers from breakfast on the little stove at the back of the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Our hampers were in the hall by the bathroom and we took turns doing laundry, leaving neatly folded stacks on the dining room table for the other to take whenever the time was right. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I thought of the times Sass had sent me to do the laundry at the river, and how much happier I was now. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Hisao had gotten a job in the laundry ironing and folding clothes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She’s the one who does the laundry for the whole family and is always complaining about my stinky stuff. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The redness of my mother’s hands after scrubbing the laundry or delivering another woman’s baby. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Handle it how you think best,” she said, before turning back to the dishes in the sink or the pile of laundry she had to fold. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Walasi-Yi, we discovered, provided other services to bona fide hikers for a small fee—laundry center, showers, towel rental—and we greedily availed ourselves of all those. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The steam in the laundry had slicked his hair down against his face. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I put my bag down in the laundry room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The laundry workers earned 40 cents an hour, ranking them among the lowest paid of all war workers, but with few job options available to them, it felt like a windfall. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Once I reached the laundry room, I scrambled up the ladder and flipped the circuit breaker switch twice. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z If we were free and at home in Rhode Island and these were our sheets and our laundry lines and our snow, she’d dance like an angel. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z An argument, about who should put the dishes in the dishwasher, whose turn it is to sort the laundry, clean the toilet; something daily and unimportant in the big scheme of things. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Mum was looking through the laundry bag for a spare. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It takes us three trips to haul the mountain down to the laundry room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Then he remembered the laundry room was in the basement. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She’s in charge of the hospital laundry and claims I’m a hopeless case where white is concerned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She flooded into my present, and only tact kept me from burying my face in the dirty laundry overfilling the hamper by her dresser. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I helped Art haul in plastic totes the size of laundry baskets laden with meat and produce. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A portrait had fallen off the desk into a basket of dirty laundry. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z We finally decided that a dozen leos should be more than enough, and besides, the ranch had laundry facilities. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I ran after her, told her to wait right there, charged down the hallway to the laundry room, got my drum stuff, and galloped back. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a laundry room, an unfinished basement, and a two-car garage. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z In the background was the reason the photographer wanted us outside—the family laundry with, of course, the diapers predominating. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z One day I went to the basement to do the laundry and found one of his socks was stuffed with bloody handkerchiefs. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Forcing down her revulsion, she picked up the handkerchiefs with her cleaning rag and dropped them into the laundry basket in the hall. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After a commercial for gum and another for laundry soap, MacGyver comes back on and makes a plan with all the villagers to defeat the higher-up bad guys. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I remembered Chucha scooping it up and stuffing it in my laundry bag. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Miles finishes loading his laundry and turns his machine on. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z They gave the key to Regina, whom they also called a stinking Jew, and Regina and Rosa disappeared to the attic, I assumed to shred all Mrs. Pohler’s clean laundry. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Parvin helped us as always, doing laundry, washing dishes, and chopping vegetables for dinner, but the work kept piling up. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z First she was in prison working in the laundry and dying fast Then us got her move to the mayor’s house. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was curled up in an old sleeping bag in the corner of the trailer’s tiny laundry room, wedged into the gap between the wall and the dryer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The rodent had been living in my laundry bag, probably since the football season started. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z A washing machine, because no one here will scrub laundry in exchange for a bowl of rice. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I nodded and wrapped my arms around him in a hug, breathing in his familiar scent, a mixture of the sweet, musky oil he used in his beard and laundry detergent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z A gallery’s laundry was done a couple of times a week. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I look for rusty hand trucks and hasty corner displays, and then down tenement alleys strung with fancy laundry and in the half-soaped windows of basement stores. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let him go on reading, all of you. And anyone whose teeth start chattering with fear had better go outside and help the women with the laundry.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It was plastic, a soupy bobbing island of it, bags mostly, soda bottles, laundry detergent containers, all the same bleached gray. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaira had accidentally left Pillow behind in New Haven, and Aileen, the tour’s travel coordinator, took a flight back to Connecticut and personally searched the hotel laundry until she found it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z It takes us three hours to finish because we have to do laundry, too. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She thought about distracting herself with the laundry, but she didn’t feel like it, not yet. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Somehow the fact that his laundry room connected to this strange place made him feel invaded. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And I used to give Lloyd fifteen laundry bags, and I’d be sitting down in a barbershop somewhere talking to some old guys I know. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She laughs and deposits the leggings into the laundry basket. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Beyond the laundry room at the back of the house, the lawns rolled away, so smooth and closely mown, the ground itself seemed green rather than planted with grass. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They entered the headmistress’s office, and Father Cham leaned on his staff as he lowered to the floor in front of a woven laundry basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “I’m having a devil of a time setting up extra circuits in the laundry.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Our playmates’ families exchanged their unwanted food for sugar, coal oil, spices, potted meat, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, soda crackers, toilet soap and even laundry soap. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when she was between apartments, just moving into one or just moving out, she’d use my washer-dryer for her laundry. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a laundry, but even after the wash, nothing I wear feels clean. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She ran out of the room before she could think, slamming the door behind her, and scampered smack into her mother in the hallway, whose arms were loaded with clean laundry. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Her fingers were rough from laundry work and cleaning. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I don’t even mind doing his laundry at the Laundromat, along with my own. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Fell out of the laundry room with Boots. Then we came looking for you, and here you are.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mine is the opposite: balled up like a sock in the laundry. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z So either my mom hasn’t put the laundry away yet or more likely Piper got them out before my mom saw them. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We shouldn’t have been so late; there was laundry work to do and Chinese school to get to by 5:00. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The laundry room is small and enclosed, secret, underground. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She eyes the plastic laundry basket that’s now full to bursting and has a crack in the side, and I think she’s about to say no, but she actually nods. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z At her employer’s remark, Ann charged out of the laundry room, her eyes flashing, her stout arms pumping like pistons. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When he walked into the room, Mary was calmly folding laundry on her bed. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I stopped by the laundry room on the way back, but instead of putting my clothes in the dryer, I threw them into the trash. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It smelled like laundry detergent and mom perfume. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I cried, and dropped the laundry, running into the house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z She goes into the hall closet and picks up the laundry basket. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Doing laundry, cooking, cleaning, Mama Ya-Ya keeps teaching me every day. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z But when she got to the Sunday school—held in the Maer Hall laundry—and tried to teach the children, she couldn’t concentrate. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I maneuvered my work shifts so that my brothers would work the afternoons, when he usually came lumbering into the laundry, but he caught on and began coming during the evening, the cool shift. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She yanks up my laundry bag and, at the last minute, scoops up the diary and stuffs it inside. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I thought she meant the laundry until she tied a scarf around her hair. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z —CO, can you call to see why my laundry bag didn’t come back? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some hang limp from laundry lines as thin and worn as thread; others are nailed clumsily to the doors of modest mud-brick homes not so unlike my own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Mrs. Templeton had separate African maids for her cooking, cleaning, and laundry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z So they hadn’t seen me leave through the laundry room window each morning, or return through it each night. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z On Budloe Street, people were standing in long lines with their bundles of laundry at the washing stations. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Inside, I went straight to the laundry room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z That old laundry maid, Pila, was the strangest maid we had ever had, for it seemed everything that could go wrong with her had gone wrong. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The building had wooden balconies with open shutters—from many of them, laundry was hanging to dry in the sun. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And the sinks in the bedrooms work, their alcoves no longer stuffed with laundry right up to the ceiling. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He raised the hat in a gesture that took in the entire neighborhood, the ghetto with its shantytown porches, unpaved streets, and disconsolate laundry. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The mother interrupts my reverie when she takes the baby and asks me to do the laundry. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She said it once when they were just about to enter the library, again when she was reading the laundry list of rules. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z After we have what we need, we go to the laundry room and wash the cans and containers in the deep sink. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z A woman followed behind carrying a basket of laundry—pants and shirts and shalwar kamizes piled in a heap. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z My mother was doing laundry in the backyard when I got home. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m going to go look around. Maybe I’ll find the laundry room.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z They bent their backs to unload heavy crates from ships and trains, or to carry pallets of bricks to and from construction job sites; their daughters scoured pots and boiled laundry. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A man was hanging out wet laundry on his balcony while calling out threats to his neighbor. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Her mom came back, set down the laundry basket she was carrying, leaned against the doorjamb, and folded her arms with a sly smile. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I nod, tight-throated, staring now at a muted commercial for laundry detergent. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z She studied me distastefully, like I was a bag of dirty laundry she’d been sent to fetch. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Same way he is for chimneys and laundry chutes. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z This part he says in Korean because the last thing my dad would want to do is air our dirty laundry in front of a miguk saram. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The wealthiest villager wife came to the laundry one day to have a listen. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But it doesn’t smell like Mom—it just smells like clean laundry. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “That night, the night I fell, I couldn’t sleep. I went down to the laundry room to play a little saxophone. I didn’t want to wake anybody.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t be mad, honey. Robin offered to throw in a load of laundry while you were sleeping, and your pillowcase was filthy. This fell out when I took it off the pillow.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I wanted to wear the new one my aunt gave me. But I think it’s with my laundry at Dad’s.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z "Possible," Mami said when we found a window left opened in the laundry room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It was early, not yet nine, and Perry was the first customer at the Washateria, a self-service laundry. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z If Mami hadn’t done the laundry for me yesterday, I wouldn’t even have a clean one to wear. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He jumped in line as we strode down the hall, through the lemon-scented kitchen, and into the damp laundry room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I had been through streets like Polk Street before, when we had picked up laundry, but we had only been passing through then. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z These unprovable suspicions, Jackson’s detainment in the laundry, Pierrot’s wretched delivery and the morning’s colossal heat were oppressive to Briony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I slept in a tangle of blankets on the laundry room floor, the only part of the house with no windows and also a door that locked from the inside. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Manuela’s mom told me about it in the laundry room, so I enrolled you.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Then he takes the last empty cart and uses it to transfer his laundry from a washing machine to a dryer. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Put those in the laundry room,” Miles called to her. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z All kinds of businesses from hotels to laundries to humor magazines were using the horse’s likeness in their ads. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or you could want beautiful drawings you made when you were a kid,” says Mirren, kneeling by the laundry basket. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It had been three days since the laundry was done, so even his clean set was dirty and smelly. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z But yesterday I found a faded quilt in a pile of giveaways in our apartment building's laundry room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Naomi was walking out with her laundry basket when he’d driven up, and when he asked, she told him that the twins were off running in the woods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He has a faded black eye and smells like weed, cologne, and dirty laundry. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The laundry room, the coffee cupboard, her dad’s bike, her mom’s box of hair color. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She trickled two inches of lukewarm water into an old claw-footed bathtub and handed them a slab of laundry soap. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They are ugly indi'gena blouses, used and grayish white, the color of dirty laundry water. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered whether she had already found out that Alice generally did the laundry. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They empty out into a laundry room, with a glorious copper tub in the middle. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z On her day off, she takes the men’s laundry—six baskets—to the Laundromat. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The part I liked best was when I went with Father to pick up the dirty laundry and deliver the clean. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Maya said, folding another shirt from her clean laundry pile. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I used to take Lloyd out selling laundry bags, you know. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I go up to the attic and cut down one of the ropes for the laundry, bring it into the apartment, and tie it to the heater in Mr. and Mrs. Diamant’s empty bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I never did. We send our shirts to the laundry.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The washers and driers in the basement laundry room rumbled well past midnight, and in the wintertime, the oil burner that kept the entire building heated drowned out all the other sounds. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Now I listen to the dryer tumbling in the laundry room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z And he was off the horse and over the laundry yard fence, pulling me to him before I could take another breath. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Mom hasn’t made me laugh so hard since that time she took a balled-up sock out of a laundry basket and threw it at Dad’s butt. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z In exchange for his room and laundry services, Jack gave the women extra food rations he got from the Americans. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z In Key West, I earned $1,039 in one month and spent $517 on food, gas, toiletries, laundry, phone, and utilities. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z To support her daughters, she took in laundry and later found a job as a cleaning woman at Wanamaker’s Department Store downtown. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I recognized some of them, like Shagufta, who had been holding the laundry when I entered the servants' quarters earlier, and Ghulam, the driver who brought me here. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Then she cleared everything—compact, billfold, laundry bill, toothbrush, a tin of aspirins, and a gold-plated swizzle stick—back into her handbag. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The metal door was half hidden behind a laundry bin full of dirty hotel towels. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Suddenly a series of new workers showed up at the laundry; they each worked for a week before they disappeared. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, there was a Chinese laundry on Eighth Avenue that sold used comics for a nickel, and I bought my share, sneaking them into the house rolled into my sock under a pants leg. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Olga must have done a good job washing them in secret because, if Amá had found them in the laundry, she would have flipped the hell out. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They were red and raw from the harsh detergent she used to do the laundry. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing on her feet all day in the sweltering laundry was an opportunity if the tumbled military uniforms bought new school clothes, if each sock made a down payment on her children’s college educations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Most of Marian’s earnings from concert appearances went to her mother, who was still taking in laundry and scrubbing floors, and to her sisters, who were still in school. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z She carefully unpinned the clothes and laid them into her laundry basket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z We did two loads of laundry, washed out our cups and food bowls and pots and pans, bought and sent postcards, phoned home, and stocked up liberally on fresh and packaged foods in the shop. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s on its seventh day, which means they better find laundry facilities soon. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z And I went to the laundry yard to help a young slave named Tess to beat and boil the dirt out of a lot of heavy smelly clothes. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I drag the wicker laundry basket from the closet, take down all the pictures, and load them into the basket. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I have to work in the laundry rooms tomorrow. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Mo’s quilt was cold when she crept under it, and the pillow didn’t yet smell of him either, only of laundry detergent. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I dug his business card out of a pair of shorts in the laundry hamper. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Squatting or kneeling beside large piles of laundry, they used stones to rub the clothes clean. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z They haunted the laundry lines and pub doorways of Coal’s twisting lanes, drooping like wilted flowers, eyes flicking toward us and away again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z They sat in silence for a while, Bennie twisting and pulling away as Sierra tumbled the past two days around and around in her head like a load of laundry. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I missed the kitchen, the stove, the laundry tubs. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z His tree frog lived in the parlor, while his snapping turtle could be found tied to the laundry tub. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The house took on a life of its own, hatching piles of dishes and laundry and newspapers and dust. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z She would borrow freely from the poems she’d heard, stringing words together like laundry on a line, connecting ideas and descriptions she couldn’t have planned. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They leaned over the railings on every floor, chatting to their neighbors or hanging laundry upon lines strung between the orb lights. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The boys among us liked to think on how the Mexican girl surely got wet doing the laundry. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Winterbottom baked and cleaned and did laundry and grocery shopping. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Neither one of them thought about using the desk, and even if they had wanted to, Maya’s laundry was spread all over it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z At the laundry yard fence, Kevin waited, feeding something to his mare. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She pushed it to the bottom of her laundry basket and was pulling on a clean shirt when she heard the front door open. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Just think. If this works out, I can take in less laundry,” Ma said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked out the window of the laundry room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Every day the hulk took one drink from the watercooler and went once to the bathroom, stumbling between the presses into the back of the laundry, big shoes clumping. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were groceries and herbal shops, clothing shops and laundries, halls that housed the brotherhoods or the district associations or the offices of family clans. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And the obscene caller that phoned us at home when the adults were at the laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a kid who lived in New York City and had to do the laundry and get back upstairs with his little sister before his mother—his mother! Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Her other hand was holding my football laundry bag, as far out in front of her as her arm could reach. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z They ran between matching red-brick houses and past women hanging fresh laundry, following me as their mothers smiled and waved too. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “It rounds me out,” he said, folding laundry in the family room and watching a Georgia Tech football game on television. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She walked her sister and niece to the laundry by way of Chinatown. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “That is the work of Therese, who is most diligent in the laundry,” she says. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Through the window, I could see Mrs. Baylor hanging up laundry on the clothesline again. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Before I put the new shirt on, I bring it to my nose, grateful for the scent of laundry soap. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Lighting the gas stove no longer took much thought, and she knew how to handle the oil- and mud-stained laundry Henry left in heaps for her to wash. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I put you babies in the clean places at the laundry, as far away from the germs that fumed out of the ghosts’ clothes as I could. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z From there it sweeps across an Oriental rug, marches out to the back porch, leaps nimbly up onto a laundry line, and tightrope-walks across to the house behind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Only Aliya makes a move and stacks the folded piles into a laundry basket. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I dropped my football laundry bag inside and headed straight for the phone. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z The fug of body odour, perfume and laundry soap hangs oppressively above bowed, damp heads. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of her eye, Hyacinth spotted her mom leave the kitchen, disappear into the laundry room, then reappear lugging a stack of collapsed boxes that had been stored behind the washing machine. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Her father ran a laundry business and couldn’t take care of her, and she’d been sent to live with a foster family until she was eight years old. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She pointed down at my football laundry bag. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Almost all the time Uhmma twists her hair tight as wet laundry and sticks it on top of her head like on the Buddha statues in the park. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Moonie follows me into the Drinkers’ laundry room. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Afterward, I'd go back to the hotel with clean laundry and play cards with the other electrical workers who lived down the hall. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z She turned off the iron and looked for one of Papi’s old shirts in her clean laundry hamper. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It's airless and hot inside and musty, like dirty laundry. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To prevent burglars and vandals from breaking in, we’d hang laundry on the clothesline and put dirty dishes in the sink. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The bottom floor was given over to the laundry. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z This is true whether you’ve hung pictures, hung loose, hung out, hung laundry, or hung up. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma asked, holding a fresh load of laundry. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Finn sniffed a sleeve, and there it was: Mom’s unique odor, a mix of vanilla and Spring Breeze laundry detergent, with maybe some cinnamon and grass stain lurking underneath. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We could shop for groceries and fold laundry in front of the TV. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Our washtub, where we occasionally did a proper laundry, followed by a proper bath, was outside. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z In the next day’s laundry I see Therese’s night shift, stained with blood. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They rest, play dominoes, wash laundry, and hang it on lines that crisscross the courtyard. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It didn’t sound like it was just a laundry issue. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He lifted me as if I were a light load of laundry. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Mom starts sorting laundry again, and I go back into my room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I go to the laundry room and start the machine, and she flops herself on the couch and flips through the channels. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Being of simple mind, Dana probably had thought only of his unexpected good fortune as the laundry basket was loaded into the laundry truck, which was then driven out the gates of the detention center. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon Lelia cornered the woman in the laundry room and tried to communicate with her while helping her fold a pile of clothes fresh out of the dryer. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d decided to use food-coloring gel instead of laundry dye because the gel wasn’t made with chemicals that would harm the sea life. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z First she was in prison working in the laundry and dying fast. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She took me through the dormitory, the laundry, the supply rooms, and the dining hall—now set and waiting for the food to be delivered from the central commissary. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z "I found some money when I was doing laundry," her mom said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I took a plastic laundry tub—part of the gear we had carried up to the cave—and left it under the waterfall for a moment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The guys in the Hermes cabin were scrambling around in a panic, stashing dirty laundry under their beds and accusing each other of taking stuff. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I don’t know how, but the dormitory smells like sleep—like laundry and shoes and night sweats and morning coffee. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Same went for the cameras in the laundry, the Washrooms, and the Mess Hall. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “According to Festus, our flying table, Buford, made it back safely while we were in Charleston, so those eagles didn’t get him. Unfortunately, he lost the laundry bag with your pants.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She takes one look at me and begins stuffing clothes in the laundry bag that once hung behind my door, a rag doll’s face on a hanger with her body an empty sack. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z For $28 each we got a room, dinner and breakfast, and free use of the shower, laundry, and guest lounge. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z We did our laundry in the Laundromat, but those things that required ironing were taken to Lee’s house and the ironing chore was shared, as was everything else. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The dark blue light of dawn was starting to creep in through the laundry room window. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Besides the washers and dryers, a couple of which are running, there are gray concrete walls, a wobbly table, a big metal sink, and a red plastic laundry basket. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Crickets and night toads, the brattle of a dog, laundry billowing on a line against the night breeze. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The squirrel lurched left and made a desperate leap up onto my clean laundry. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Not like soap or deodorant, but like clean laundry. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She did not sneak Jaja’s food to his room, wrapped in cloth so it would appear that she had simply brought his laundry in. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Surely if I think about algebra equations or start counting laundry machines, I'll fall right back asleep. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Because they were everywhere, clinging to freshly scrubbed laundry on clothes lines, or stuck to the bottom of well-heeled shoes, the butterflies were on everyone’s most wanted list, including Mamá’s. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It was me and Kermit’s job to deliver the laundry Ma washed around town. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Jim was home from college, but he had a new girlfriend over in Berwind and had taken the Buick and sped off almost as soon as he deposited his laundry in the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Well, said Fujiko, now your father is gone, folding laundry in a camp in Montana, and we all must get by, endure. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Then there is behavioral residue, which is defined as the inadvertent clues we leave behind: dirty laundry on the floor, for instance, or an alphabetized CD collection. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Then Nora stops at a door in the hallway that leads to the laundry room. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z I stayed behind a pipe in the laundry room, ignored the pulsating beeps coming over the audio system, and watched a spider construct a web. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Dust the furniture, hang the laundry, I know. Let it wait, Cook. The Commandant’s gone for an entire day. Can’t we appreciate that, even for a minute?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Slowly they crept past the swing set, the laundry building, the dark green trash bins, the rows of parked cars. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z No question about it; their laundry was becoming a problem. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Her slightest gesture, her faint scent of fresh laundry and soap, the light in her eyes and the grace of her delicate neck crowned with untamable curls—I loved everything about her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z David had her looking like a picture he’d seen of a Chinese junk in the harbor at Hong Kong, with several families living on the boat, drying their laundry in the rigging. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When the boat docks at Fort Mason, Piper has the laundry in three fully stuffed bags. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed the willow laundry basket and lined it with some clean blankets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Right. Just forget everything. Hey, maybe they have some laundry they need done, too,” she grumbled. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z His leg pains flared up, flashed through his body, and the laundry odors, the steamy stench, all at once sickened him, picked him up and propelled him out the door. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The television hummed, a jingly ad for laundry soap. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Safer comes walking out of the laundry room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z All Charles could do was nod, smile, and wonder when Al Capone had opened a laundry. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z I finish work and put my apron in the bin that go out to the laundry. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The mines weren’t an option, what with a baby to look after, but she managed to get laundry from some of the merchants in town. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She did not want the gold to wash away in the dishwater and the laundry water and the field water. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It's like washing clothes; stuff laundry in and slam the lid.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the juice splashed on Pecola’s legs, and the burn must have been painful, for she cried out and began hopping about just as Mrs. Breedlove entered with a tightly packed laundry bag. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She bemoaned her fate and challenged her stars as we hung our laundry or scrubbed scales from our fish. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There’s a laundry basket right by the door, clothes spilling out. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I thought they would launch at him a laundry list of all the things that have been going on, but they seemed uncomfortable when they tried to talk about me to a stranger. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In a voice hushed with humility, he said, “Who does your laundry?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It’s resting at L, for lobby, just sitting there, so I step away and peek into the laundry room. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I sell laundry bags and socks and everything and Lloyd used to follow me everywhere I go, ’cause he knew his daddy would take care of him. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The older man that Miles and I saw in the laundry room the other day—Mr. Hollins—gets out of the car that just parked, and he passes by us as he enters the building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Then she translated in Chinese: “You shouldn’t fight and do your laundry at the same time. If you win, your clothes will get dirty.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Strung between a window in each of two towers was a gossamer thread of china from which hung—laundry! Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I spread on a modest amount and set it on a pink glass plate, the kind that came free in bags of sugar or flour or laundry soap. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I hid the liquor inside my shoes in the bedroom closet, in the bathroom dirty clothes hamper, in the laundry room, and in other secret places. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His grandma would get up first thing in the morning to vacuum, did laundry four times a week, and once cleaned the bath at midnight before going to bed. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Pretty much everything he needed, plus a laundry cord he could use as a belt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When I finally get to the laundry room, Mom has the place pulled apart. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I nodded and waved to a woman hanging laundry, but like everyone else she just stared at me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Carlos comes back with a laundry basket and towel. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Momma must’ve just done laundry, because my sheets smell like Tide. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z For ten years, Mother had been the primary breadwinner, while continuing to cook meals, clean the house, do the laundry, and I had never once heard her express anything like resentment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So the sheets were still downstairs somewhere in the laundry, unwashed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I remember this well, because that was the soap we were issued for laundry; later on, the smell of it would permeate these rooms. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The moon is out, shining through the window at one end, silvering the laundry ropes, making ghost gray shapes on the dusty floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Over here,” Safer says, jerking his head toward the laundry room, where he strolls around, very casual. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I’m intrigued by the idea that someone else can come and take away your laundry. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Cleaner then. We don’t put die laundry out until Wednesday. Comes back Monday.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He had somehow persuaded a woman to come into the laundry room of the house, and then sit up on the gas dryer, which was running. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Once upon a time, Mama would sing while washing laundry or cooking dinner or any of a million chores that had to be done around the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z |
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