ironing

Definition of ironingnext
present participle of iron

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ironing The international community uses five basic symbols for washing (wash tub), drying (square), bleaching (triangle), ironing (iron), and dry cleaning (circle). Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 15 Nov. 2025 Using ironing cloths and a few leaves leftover from raking your yard, iron the leaves onto 8-by-8-inch squares of wax paper. Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ironing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ironing
Verb
  • Things are not going well at the moment, so the president is lashing out.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
  • After lashing out at Morgan for suggesting that Lucia was a suspect, Karadec shows up at Morgan’s front door to apologize, leading to a tearful heart-to-heart between the partners.
    Max Gao, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Imanaga struck out 11 — tying his career high — in six innings and allowed just two more hits after Turner’s blast.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Clare Coleman, president and CEO of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, which represents health professionals focused on family planning, said tying Title X to birth-rate goals replaces individual decision-making with a government objective.
    Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • For companies with binding clean energy commitments, this is not a marginal concern.
    Pandu Sjahrir, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Arbitration is also binding, with limited avenues to persuade a judge to vacate an arbitration award.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 9 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Against a Connecticut team more difficult to kill than a cockroach in body armor and their leading scorer hobbling around with a knee sprain, ankle sprain and bone bruise, the Wolverines gutted out every point in their 69-63 national championship victory.
    Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The impact sends both men hurling to the pavement, and the shoeless rear passenger can be seen hobbling on one foot afterward.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Bagwell said the tourism authority’s role in securing funding ended with getting state support and making a small contribution from the authority’s own business development fund.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Even if the performance was not swashbuckling, Arsenal securing their place in back-to-back Champions League semi-finals for the first time is a noteworthy milestone.
    Jack Lang, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Lyonne, who was reportedly boarding a red-eye flight to New York City on Delta Air Lines, was allegedly escorted off the plane after failing to follow flight instructions, per the outlet, which included closing her laptop and fastening her seatbelt before takeoff.
    Edward Segarra, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Unibody cars, such as the Golf, are put together with a single cab and chassis instead of fastening a body and engine to a frame like body-on-frame trucks in the USA do.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 7 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • The Baltimore region has suffered too long from underinvestment in transit services — which is shackling economic growth, harming the environment and constraining quality of life for families.
    Brandon Scott, Baltimore Sun, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Men are often the ones in those ICE facilities who are shackling and chaining detainees.
    Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Mythos is not simply good at finding vulnerabilities, Graham said, but also at chaining them together into complicated exploits that can be devastating hacking tools.
    Kevin Collier, NBC news, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Daisy chaining of multiple monitors is one way to increase screen area.
    Tony Hoffman, PC Magazine, 11 Apr. 2026

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“Ironing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ironing. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.

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