How to Use dry cleaning in a Sentence

dry cleaning

noun
  • I can pick up the dry cleaning on my way home.
  • This hack is best used for dry cleaning.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
  • This hack is best used for dry cleaning.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 5 May 2026
  • This hack is best used for dry cleaning.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 1 Jan. 2026
  • One altered clothes as a kid in his dad's dry cleaning business.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 19 Apr. 2020
  • And best of all, the pants are machine-washable, so there’s no need for dry cleaning.
    — Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Gone are the free lunches, the free dry cleaning and the free pass on hitting your numbers.
    — Sterling Lanier, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
  • His aides were also asked to pick up his dry cleaning — all on taxpayer dime, of course.
    — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 11 June 2018
  • As for care, the brand recommends spot cleaning or dry cleaning.
    — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2022
  • That’s what those people have done -- owned a dry cleaning company for a long, long time.
    — Taylor Mims, Billboard, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Well, the servants are the ones who did the grocery shopping, the dry cleaning, et cetera.
    — Marc Malkin, Variety, 16 Dec. 2023
  • For antiques or delicates, don’t take the risk—try dry cleaning.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Nov. 2024
  • There was already a restaurant, a cafe and a dry cleaning and garment repair shop.
    — Trefor Moss, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Note that the brand recommends machine washing it on cold or dry cleaning.
    — Laura Fenton, wsj.com, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The device includes two reusable mop pads for wet and dry cleaning.
    — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Not only will your dry cleaning bill be much smaller, but stains may no longer be as daunting to sort out on your own.
    — Julia Gall, Marie Claire, 4 May 2020
  • According to neighborhood lore, the ghost ship was once a dry cleaning shop.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 14 Aug. 2020
  • There will be restaurants and maybe even dry cleaning services and a barbershop.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Maybe your mom needs someone to drop a couple of packages off at the post office or pick up the dry cleaning.
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 26 Dec. 2024
  • For a service charge, guests can also take advantage of valet dry cleaning.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Outsourcing chores can sometimes add an extra item to your to-do list, as is the case with dry cleaning.
    — Tessa Cooper, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2025
  • These Boohoo satin pants can be cleaned from the comfort of your laundry room, which means no more dry cleaning bills.
    — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Friends and family reached out, sent flowers, gifts, cards and offered to pick up my dry cleaning.
    — R. Eric Thomas, The Mercury News, 21 Feb. 2025
  • If Bruce Wayne has a tuxedo though, it's buried somewhere deep in his dry cleaning.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Both friends and family reached out, sent flowers, gifts, cards and offered to pick up my dry cleaning.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Tony, one of the headwaiters, is already halfway up the first flight, his dry cleaning draped over his arm.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The only thing that gives it away as a bedroom is the bed, the nightstand and her dry cleaning flapping in the wind.
    — Brad Mielke, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Reach out to arrange room cleaning, turnover, dry cleaning of clothes, and other services.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Mar. 2026
  • One hole was found in the left window of a dry cleaning store, underneath a tuxedo logo.
    — Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 9 June 2019
  • But at-home dry cleaning solutions like Dryel can work in between big trips to the cleaners.
    — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 17 Sep. 2019

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