Sentence examples for washday from inspiring English sources

Until well into the post-1945 era, many British women were still using cleaning equipment which had barely evolved... Until the advent of automatic washing machines, washday was – exactly that: a day devoted to washing".

Up in Oryu, girls of the Three Revolution Red Flag Movement build a cyclotron out of old Hyundai parts; and, Supreme Adept of the Withering Putdown, chemical engineers in Sowan succeed in creating a washday miracle that removes even stubborn grease stains without harming dainty underthings!... That's nothing, Ladies and Germs!

Depicted here is premechanized cotton culture, replete with field hands; cotton being weighed; a funeral procession moving from a church to the graveyard; washday on the plantation; the pecan harvest; and nightfall with its trip to the local honky-tonk, this last image described by our guide as "drink, dance, get shot".

The result was a bunch of what Consumer Reports called "washday wash-outs," which left some clothes "nearly as stained after washing as they were when we put them in".

Arthur's hair is straight and Kit's is curly and they both hate washday.

They painted ponies hauling coal, women pumping water for washday, men showing off whippets.

There is a washday soap called Duz, & the boys who write Oxydol, Rinso, Super Suds, and other saponary ads have naturally had to abandon "does"; can't say Oxydol "does" anything, because that would be a plug for Duz.

Monday must still be washday, as laundry hung drying on lines at nearly every house, providing a good indication of the number and ages of family members.

With heads lowered, wings drooped, feathers fluffed, wattles inflated and tail raised to reveal washday-white tail coverts, they advance on one another.