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
Meredith Olan, director of the Banner House history museum, has been hauling water from the creek and boiling it just to do the dishes.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024
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
They too have been summoned by the bell, they resent it, they have other things to do, the dishes for instance.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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