How to Use dirty laundry in a Sentence

dirty laundry

noun
  • The company is trying to keep its dirty laundry from being aired in public.
  • Portnoy agreed that one of them just needs to air out their dirty laundry.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The losses are piling up like dirty laundry.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • Pack dirty shoes, dirty laundry, and liquids in them for the return trip home.
    — Jill Schildhouse, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Toss dirty laundry into the hamper.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Part of the art of airing dirty laundry lies in sullying oneself in the process.
    — Anna Holmes, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The tarpaulin draped over a ship propeller brings to mind dirty laundry slung over the blades of an idle fan.
    — Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 23 June 2026
  • At the base, there’s a separate compartment to store your shoes or dirty laundry.
    — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
  • This can help keep dirty laundry separate, and even keep you more organized throughout your trip.
    — Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2026
  • My sister was bringing her dirty laundry with her to wash at my house in order to save on her water and electric bill.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • My sister was bringing her dirty laundry with her to wash at my house in order to save on her water and electric bill.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • For astronauts, dirty laundry has always been a major issue in space.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Shoes and dirty laundry can quickly cause your closet to smell, so consider storing these elsewhere.
    — Katelyn Squiers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Not everyone in the family is as easily convinced to air their dirty laundry, though.
    — Liza Esquibias, PEOPLE, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Democrats gave the Bidens some grace, standing with them as their surviving children had their dirty laundry stolen and published online.
    — David Weigel, semafor.com, 3 June 2026
  • This clever method provides a sleek solution to hide your dirty laundry while keeping everything organized in one place.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Most of these grudge matches play out in podcast appearances, where comedians air their dirty laundry via stream-of-consciousness rants.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Adding 1/2 cup to your washer drum before loading in dirty laundry will help boost the cleaning properties of your detergent.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Feeling emotional paralysis can cause the dirty laundry to pile up, frozen meals to become the daily fall back option, and the floors to never truly be clean.
    — Ashleigh N. Deluca, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
  • But within months, Eminem once again filed for divorce — at which point dirty laundry got aired through various media intermediaries.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026
  • Instead of tossing dirty laundry in a corner of a bedroom, store it neatly in a wicker hamper that’s perfectly designed to fit in any 90-degree angle.
    — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 20 Apr. 2026
  • According to tradition, she was smuggled into the palace wrapped in a carpet—or more likely in a much-less-glamorous sack of dirty laundry—and taken to Caesar’s room.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Because there’s absolutely nothing worse than coming home with a suitcase full of dirty laundry only to find your underwear drawer empty and your hamper overflowing.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The backpack itself is crafted from a durable, water-resistant, anti-abrasion material, and includes a wet pocket for separating damp items or dirty laundry.
    — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
  • With Micah Parsons airing out dirty laundry involving his lack of extension talks, it's generated a ton of criticism for the franchise.
    — Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025
  • To go the extra mile, Gagliardi recommends adding a laundry sanitizer to your machine’s fabric softener compartment to kill germs that may have transferred from the dirty laundry.
    — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Leaving clean laundry in the dryer or hamper only puts off a chore until later, keeps clean clothes from its proper place, and also risks wrinkles or someone accidentally mistaking it for dirty laundry instead.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Leaving clean laundry in the dryer or hamper only puts off a chore until later, keeps clean clothes from its proper place, and also risks wrinkles or someone accidentally mistaking it for dirty laundry instead.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Leaving clean laundry in the dryer or hamper only puts off a chore until later, keeps clean clothes from its proper place, and also risks wrinkles or someone accidentally mistaking it for dirty laundry instead.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Dating from around May 26, 1593, this is a dirty laundry list of allegations, either written or dictated by Baines.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

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