laundry starch
Example Sentences
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The air of August smells of “rotting mattress straw, laundry starch, mildew and cat piss.”
From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2017
I heard that people with a condition called “pica” eat things such as laundry starch because of a vitamin deficiency.
From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2017
You'll investigate whether different salts have iodine by mixing them with laundry starch, which forms a blue-purple–colored chemical with iodine.
From Scientific American • Nov. 21, 2013
His father was a traveling salesman who sold laundry starch throughout seven states.
From Newsweek
Starch bath.—Add eight ounces of laundry starch to each gallon of water.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson
