Sentence examples for take in laundry from inspiring English sources
"I can work as a maid or take in laundry or cook food," Mrs. Thakkar said.
He enjoys the range of subjects and likes the accessibility: "The audience ranges from college professors to presidents to people who take in laundry," he says, proudly.
His mother, Annie Martin Carter, took in laundry for white people for 25 years.
Her father worked in the steel mills; her mother had a thriving business taking in laundry.
Some are headed by mothers earning 60 cents a day taking in laundry, or men working on and off for $1 a day.
Sister Bridget (Geraldine McEwan), the head nun and de facto warden, is a blandly smiling disciplinarian under a habit of steel who hoards the money the convent earns by taking in laundry.
In Dawson and other towns, some women took in laundry to make money.
Her mother, who took in laundry, would be whipping sheets and shirts off the clotheslines.
Women everywhere baked cakes and took in laundry to buy yarn.
His wife and two daughters took in laundry in their southern Illinois town.
