How do you use Laundries in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Laundries meaning
plural of laundry
Using Laundries
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of laundry
- In the example corpus, laundries often appears in combinations such as: magdalene laundries, the laundries, and laundries.
Context around Laundries
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Laundries
- In this selection, "laundries" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, magdalene, opticians, service, tattoo, nor and baths stand out and add context to how "laundries" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a pharmacy laundries baths turkish and after the laundries was miserable. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "laundries" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with laundries
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
NCT testing centres – alongside banks, opticians, laundries and a range of other businesses – will remain open for now. (18 words)
The ships also discharge “grey water” – from swimming pools and laundries – a mere four miles off the coast. (18 words)
Largely run by the Catholic church, the Magdalene Laundries were places where ‘fallen women’ were confined and put to work. (20 words)
In the village were the GWR Medical Fund Clinic at Park House and its hospital, both on Faringdon Road, and the 1892 health centre in Milton Road – which housed clinics, a pharmacy, laundries, baths, Turkish baths and swimming pools – was almost opposite. (42 words)
Like Sister Eileen (Frances Tomelty), the fictional Mother Superior at the time of Lorna’s detention, this failure to engage (or to accept responsibility) communicates a profound lack of repentance for the abuses that occurred in the laundries. (38 words)
The book tackles the scandal of the The Mother and Baby Homes and the Magdalene Laundries, which were open from 1922 to 1996, where young ‘’fallen’’ women were sent to, especially if they were pregnant and unmarried. (37 words)
Example sentences (14)
Largely run by the Catholic church, the Magdalene Laundries were places where ‘fallen women’ were confined and put to work.
Like Sister Eileen (Frances Tomelty), the fictional Mother Superior at the time of Lorna’s detention, this failure to engage (or to accept responsibility) communicates a profound lack of repentance for the abuses that occurred in the laundries.
In 2021, Ireland’s then Taoiseach (prime minister), Enda Kenny, delivered a formal apology to the survivors of the Magdalene laundries.
The book tackles the scandal of the The Mother and Baby Homes and the Magdalene Laundries, which were open from 1922 to 1996, where young ‘’fallen’’ women were sent to, especially if they were pregnant and unmarried.
NCT testing centres – alongside banks, opticians, laundries and a range of other businesses – will remain open for now.
Personal service establishments, such as barber-tailoring or shoe repair shops, but excluding self-service laundries, tattoo parlors and body piercing.
Childcare, public cafeterias, and public laundries, as well as an extensive network of sanatoria to care for the aged and infirm, meant less care work for women in the private sphere.
During the inspection, villagers told Naik that a number of bungalows, garages, warehouses and laundries had mushroomed in the fields.
The ships also discharge “grey water” – from swimming pools and laundries – a mere four miles off the coast.
She said her life after the Laundries was “miserable really, very untrustworthy and everything and still to this day like”.
Somehow, the EU list doesn't include its own member-states' prolific money-laundries, nor the money laundering in its major trading partners.
In the village were the GWR Medical Fund Clinic at Park House and its hospital, both on Faringdon Road, and the 1892 health centre in Milton Road – which housed clinics, a pharmacy, laundries, baths, Turkish baths and swimming pools – was almost opposite.
Pure solar heaters are especially useful for laundries, swimming pools and external baths, because these can be scheduled for use on sunny days.
Restaurants (along with Chinese laundries) provided an ethnic niche for small businesses at a time when the Chinese people were excluded from most jobs in the wage economy by ethnic discrimination or lack of language fluency.
Common combinations with laundries
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: