Example Sentences

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Children are bathing, women are doing laundry and giving their bellowing cattle drinks of water.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2024

Typically, families use about as much water outdoors as they do indoors, where the main uses are bathing, washing clothes and washing dishes.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2022

The procession circles a makeshift displacement camp where mothers are bathing their children in buckets of cloudy water in front of the layers of frayed faded tarp they call home.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2020

“We don’t sell bathing suits people swim in. These are bathing suits people wear in party situations. It’s the new cocktail dress.”

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2016

Examples are the blood flukes, or schistosoma, that cause serious disease in man when they enter the body by way of drinking water or through the skin when people are bathing in infested waters.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson