Sentence examples for big washing from inspiring English sources

The North Sea fields, he says, are "like a big washing machine," requiring 10 barrels of water to maintain pressure for every barrel of oil produced.

The beach where I used to play at Oarai, a town whose name means "big washing" and which sounded romantic in happier times, is covered with sludge.

The apartment also included a huge open-plan living area and fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher, American-style (that is, big) washing machine and dryer, a huge fridge/freezer, a bedroom with a four-poster bed big enough to fit the Partridge family, and a balcony with its own corner plunge pool.

The inhabitants of Kariat-Oulad-Moussa Kariat-Oulad-Moussa Kariat-Oulad-Moussa Moroccocallly on days of big washing and spring cleaning; at the rate of 5 Dh the 200 L barrel, the expenses amouponon average the30 Dh a month (Jolie 1991).

The poor shark was panicked and was thrashing violently... it felt like being in a very big washing machine.

We sometimes joke that flying through a hurricane is just like being in a big washing machine or going through the car wash, a bumpy car wash, for a long time.

The problems can be big (creating an effective line of succession in The Godfather), bigger (washing away the sins of mankind and re-opening the gates of paradise in The Passion Of The Christ), or biggest (preventing a careening Los Angeles bus armed with a deadly explosive device from travelling at less than 50 miles per hour in Speed).

If they used high suds, they felt guilty because they might be causing their husbands to get that big washing-machine bill; they used low-suds products they felt equally guilty, because they weren't giving thei family the cleanest wash.

In between there is a washing machine and a dryer and a big wash basket.

Bob Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a research group, said that under the current law reduced benefits are restored after people turn 70, making the earnings limit a big wash for the average worker.

The remnants of an early escape were chased down; Armstrong sent his U.S. Postal teammates Tyler Hamilton and Kevin Livingston to the front, a fierce pace was set, and what the French call la grande lessive (the big wash — or, perhaps, the great rinse) began, as rider after rider was slowly dropped.