do the dishes
Example Sentences
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The humanoid bot can do the dishes, clean and fold laundry, but for now it also requires a human puppet master.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
And the other one is not much of a cook, but we’re like, “You set the table, you clear the table,” he has to do the dishes.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2024
He told Slate that Cannon’s reasoning reads as “kind of saying that she didn’t do the dishes and therefore the dishes are dirty.”
From Slate • May 15, 2024
"It's like when I make him do the dishes and he always misses a bit, I couldn't rely on him," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024
Every time it was my turn to do the dishes, I always had an excuse—or else, if Lynn felt well, I let her do them for me.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
