do the washing

Example Sentences

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These days Fiame has less time to cook for her friends but she does do the washing up, they say.

From BBC • Dec. 7, 2021

When she finally sat down, I said: “One day you’ll have someone else to do the washing up!”

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2019

It’s almost the same, I cook, do the washing, you know whatever.

From Slate • May 1, 2018

But in the high-altitude training camp in western Kenya where they live like monks, they muck out shared toilets and do the washing up just like everyone else.

From Washington Times • Mar. 29, 2016

“Mia and I will do the washing up.”

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman