How to Use washtub in a Sentence

washtub

noun
  • Over wood fires Collier was making coffee in more than a dozen washtubs.
    — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Some of them, like the washtub, are fairly self-explanatory.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Over time, the enzymes in detergents have changed and the physical design of the washtub has evolved.
    — David Kender, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2020
  • His band consisted of guitar, washtub bass, and horse's skull—the percussion was played with a stick, running up and down the teeth.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2019
  • The best part of any haircut experience – the shampoo station – is tucked away with lounge seats and relaxing washtubs.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 6 Oct. 2019
  • As soon as a cycle ends, empty the machine to prevent a smell from developing in the washtub, which may then be transferred to your clothes and linens.
    — Lauren Smith, Good Housekeeping, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Meat was sold from a washtub until the business moved to its present location — a shotgun-style house — in 1964.
    — Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • During this siege, several sturgeon in the 5-foot range jumped several times around the boat, landing with a giant whomp and whirl the size of a washtub.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 23 May 2020
  • Big Chicken spent half a year being beaten like a washtub by the president* and the other half running out to get the president* a sandwich.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2018
  • In addition to playing guitars and other mainstream instruments, your band also uses a washtub and a saw as instruments.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Leftover laundry detergent, fabric softener and soil stuck to the dispenser, inner parts and washtub can deposit on clothes, leaving behind marks and stains.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 28 Apr. 2021
  • But Dik Browne, in Wilton, worked out of his basement, surrounded by washtubs and laundry hanging on clotheslines—a workspace version of himself.
    — Cullen Murphy, Vanities, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Their older brother, Robbie, sometimes rakes them out as a courtesy to others, along with the tiny water weeds that grow if allowed, and puts the resulting sludge into a large zinc washtub, after which its fate is unknown to Nell.
    — Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Lozman will be back inside the high court Tuesday, five years after winning a legal battle over a floating home — please don't call it a houseboat — that had the justices ruminating about inner tubes, wooden washtubs and plastic dishpans.
    — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2018
  • During warm days, recalls Niels Diffrient, the office suffered from a lack of air conditioning, The solution was filling a massive washtub with a chuck of ice and lemonade, and sometimes, a few bottles of gin.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 8 Nov. 2018
  • The sign, which depicts laundress hard at work over a washtub, was built for the Econo-Wash/Maytag Laundry circa 1959, according to Richard Jarvis, senior historic preservation planner.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026

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