Example Sentences

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In the remote towns of rural northwest California, Chinese immigrants toiled in redwood logging camps, laundries and restaurants.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025

The film explores Ireland’s Magdalene laundries, Catholic-run institutions from the 18th to the late 20th century intended to reform those deemed “fallen women.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

For example, housing zones for singles need multiple public spaces to enable interactions, from shared laundries to shared meeting spaces.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2023

But it took years for the women who had been housed at the laundries to be taken seriously.

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2023

Women agents who worked in the laundries passed the word.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen