Household chore

Usage examples of ironing.

Freel, or chest-to-face, actually, since Freel was short enough to sleep comfortably on an ironing board.

I reach for one of the shirts overhead and spread it out awkwardly on the ironing board.

She reaches into a little side room, pulls out an old ironing board covered in flowery material, and sets it up, then beckons me over.

As soon as I get back to the house I set up the ironing board, plug in the iron, turn on the radio, and make a nice strong cup of coffee.

Rosie lit two rushlights and by the light of these would work on at her ironing table till Pierpoint came home and they had their supper of whelks and oysters and bread and ale.

In one a man sat smoking in his shirtsleeves, from another a slavey leaned out watching a fourwheeler that had stopped next door, in a third a woman sat sewing, and in a fourth a woman was ironing, with a glimpse of a bedstead behind her.

I should be ironing, but I know the caseworker is getting my work done.

Bunny Brown himself was hidden from sight in that mess of ironing board, washboiler, and other things!

On the floor, over and around the two chairs and the large ironing board, were the smaller board, the stepladder, the washboiler, two hammers, a lot of nails, many bread, cake, and pie pans, and some knives and forks.

Brazenly now she held up her outsized bloomers to the light and arranged them on the ironing board.

Remo grabbed a coathanger and twisted it through the handles of the top and bottom parts of the ironing table, fastening it together.

Moonsuit, I scrunched around the waterbed, bumped against a shelf that held a small TV set, and squeezed into a bathroom that was the same size as the wall indentations that once held ironing boards.

As she folded the ironing board away, and put it in the understairs cupboard, she wondered how she would feel about returning to Buckingham Palace.

She worked at all the tasks she had ever done, performing, in fancy, the myriads of mechanical movements peculiar to each occupation--shaping and pasting in the paper box factory, ironing in the laundry, weaving in the jute mill, peeling fruit in the cannery and countless boxes of scalded tomatoes.

Nellie was bending over the heavy ironing table, applying a fluting iron to the delicate ripples in Terel's silk blouse.