soaping

Example Sentences

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He worked six days a week, hosing down cars, soaping them up and vacuuming inside.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2025

Set up an assembly line from soaping and scrubbing to rinsing to drying.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2023

Doing it while a shower is running and then soaping up, thus creating a steamy-sudsy environment, would be even better for masking the odors your body produces.

From Slate • May 25, 2020

A month earlier, before Molly had come forward with her grievance, Hal had been soaping her empty lunch containers in the newsroom kitchenette when she’d been spotted by Petra, the new V.P. of programming.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 20, 2018

I thought of the gang dumping ashcans on Third Avenue and soaping up the windows.

From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George