Sentence examples for washing day from inspiring English sources
noun
Formerly, a day of the week on which a household's laundry would be washed and dried; traditionally a Monday in Britain
Washing day now involved the press of a button.
But given that my washing day has fallen on almost every day of the week, I think I may miscount.
It is alive with earthy humor — the book opens with the image of linen and underwear flapping in the breeze; it's washing day for a large family — and the ineffable mystery of love.
In the end, it was steamed for up to five hours, to be delivered to a table like poor Mrs. Cratchit's, with its smell (and, too often, taste) like washing day.
Along the entire main deck of the ship the handkerchiefs fluttered in an unbroken line, like washing day in Manchester or Leeds; and then a small coastguard cutter came scuttering alongside the liner like a playful puppy.
I start to notice that I'm walking home with a spring in my step humming Sally's favourite song: "Put your worries through the mangle, like mother does on washing day … " Sophia tells me that the "helper high" is all part of the job.
The novel begins not in "holy, unspeakable, mysterious Night", but with the poet returning with a friend from university to his family home, finding them in the middle of washing-day, throwing "great dingy snowfalls of sheets, pillowcases, bolster-cases, vests, bodices, drawers, from the upper windows into the courtyard, where grave-looking servants... were receiving them into giant baskets".
Schools selected for next year's competition will be announced on World Hand-washing Day 2012.
Untapped potential The launch of the competition took place on 20 October 2011, during the celebration of Global Hand-washing Day, before a crowd of children and youth as well as water, sanitation and hygiene specialists and development partners.
It was initiated in the context of the 2008 Mid-Term Review of the Programme of Cooperation between the Government of Viet Nam Fact Sheet on Clean Water, Hygiene and Sanitation (WASH) in Viet Nam The practice of hand-washing with soap tops the international hygiene agenda on October 15, with the celebration of Global Hand-washing Day (GHWD).
Related info On the occasion of the celebration of the Global Hand Washing Day (GHWD) 15th Oct, UNICEF Viet Nam's Goodwill Ambassador - The famous comedian Xuan Bac helped children in Viet Nam to understand the benefit of performing hand washing with soap at critical times.
