What is "laundromat"

Usage examples of "laundromat".

So during homeroom break, I ran across the street to a laundromat and got him on their pay phone.

He and Domini went to the Laundromat to call, and his mom picked them up there.

They were getting used to seeing him at the post office, the general store, the laundromat, the gas station.

She slipped into the doorway of the laundromat next door to shelter from the biting wind, dug into her bag for her mobile phone and began making calls.

Commonwealth Avenue's acclivated migration out of the squalor of Lower Brighton liquor stores and Laundromats and bars and palisades of somber and guano-dappled tenement facades, the huge and brooding Brighton Project high-rises with three-story-high orange I.

Not the laundromat, but the drugstore had been wide open, the doors chocked with rubber doorstops to let in a little cool air-the power outage had killed their air conditioning, of course.

I walked uphill and downhill in a vicinity of four blocks on Russian Hill and found nothing but laundromats, cleaners, soda fountains, beauty parlors.

The queue that had lined up to see the film stretched from the ticket booth across the front of the building, past a candy store with a window full of popcorn balls in half a dozen different flavors, past a laundromat, around a corner and three-quarters of the way down the block.

Street product turned into Laundromats, corner stores, and then converted into apartment buildings.

The junk motels, bristling with neon, squat on the littered sand, spaced along the beach areas, interspersed with package stores, cocktail lounges, juice stands, auction parlors, laundromats, hair stylists, pizza drive-ins, discount houses, shell factories, real-estate offices, tackle stores, sundries stores, little twenty-four-hour supermarkets, bowling alleys and faith healers.

You should always have a box around for phones, laundromats, parking meters and drink machines.

He automatically rotated the agitators to see what kind of shape the spring drives were in, and then loaded them carefully so each machine would extract (only in the laundromats they called it "spin-dry") without kicking off on the overload.

This is better than Marla, who goes to Laundromats to steal jeans out of the dryers and sell them at twelve dollars a pair to those places that buy used jeans.

Rudy came over to give her a hand with it, being well-versed in the ways of laundromats, and she smiled her thanks.

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