do the/one's laundry

phrase

: to wash the dirty clothes, towels, etc.

I have to do my laundry today.

Examples of do the/one's laundry in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Kasey credits the Instagram account @marys_promise, a pet influencer, for the idea of teaching Nala to do the laundry. — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025

Fairbanks writes of those happy times helping her grandmother do the laundry by hand, working in the garden and listening to family lore, including her grandmother’s time at an Indian boarding school where her culture was forbidden. — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025

In more than half of households, 58%, women are more likely to do the laundry than men, according to a 2020 Gallup poll of mostly heterosexual married and cohabitating couples. — Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 14 Aug. 2024

Her first reporting job was in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and her mother would periodically drive there after her shift at the hospital, just to be a familiar face and do the laundry. — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 21 July 2024

Productions pay catering businesses to feed workers, hoteliers to house their crews and dry cleaners to do the laundry — all of which creates a ripple effect. — Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024

In the villages that water pipes have never reached, the few residents who remain say people can barely find enough water to do the laundry or bathe themselves, let alone fish, farm or sustain livestock. — Leily Nikounazar, New York Times, 21 June 2023