ironing

present participle of iron

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of ironing 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
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Verb
  • Imelda pulled away from the Bahamas Monday evening after lashing the islands with heavy rain, tropical storm-force winds and storm surge for two days.
    Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Loners lashing out America has had genuine subversives and left-wing terror networks in the past.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The largest came on the final play, as Texas couldn’t get back to the line of scrimmage in time to spike the ball and continue a possible game-tying drive.
    Noah White, Miami Herald, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The 49ers won five games a season ago, tying for the second-best record in the program’s history.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • That concentration makes capture relatively straightforward by routing the exhaust through chemical scrubbers, binding the CO2, compressing and storing it underground.
    Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The Politics of Retreat In the UK, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, seeking to head off pressure from Reform, has pledged to repeal the landmark 2008 Climate Change Act, which established binding carbon budgets and created the independent Climate Change Committee.
    Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Because Argentina’s economy has been hobbling from one crisis to another for decades, this kind of instability isn’t uncommon.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Many continue hobbling anywhere but to the doctor, convinced the situation will eventually resolve by itself.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The path forward But whoever wins, securing the party leadership is just the first step – and a host of problems await.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Phoenix ended the regular season on a losing streak but narrowly missed setting a franchise record for wins, securing the 4th seed in a tight race between the Aces, Dream, and Mercury.
    Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The shoes feature a buckle-fastening ankle strap with the same crystal detail, with two straps coming up the side of the foot leaving the back of the foot exposed.
    Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Ironing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ironing. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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