Even while she spoke she was getting out the ironing cloth, and spreading it on the table.
I haven't hardly got the strength to stand and wash my own few things, and I'm much too bad to be starching and ironing frocks every few days.
In a corner by the stove the mother's ironing board stood against the wall and the sight of it added fuel to the anger smouldering in Sam's heart.
This not only gives a nice, smooth finish and makes the ironing easier, but it prevents the starch from boiling over.
When ironing centerpieces of tablecloths, see that the iron moves with the straight grain of the cloth.
Try tacking a pocket on the under side of your ironing board to keep your holder, stand and sheet of sand paper in.
But the young girl who is compelled to rise early in the morning, prepare breakfast, assist with the family washing or ironing and prepare herself for school will lose out somewhere.
An easy way to press skirts is to use a sheet of paper in place of a cloth; lay the folds, or plaits and in place of ironing over a wet cloth take a sheet of common magazine paper lay it on the goods and iron.
The laundress who knows how to take care of herself has a high stool with rungs for her feet, on which she may sit when she is ironing the light pieces.
Abramka Stiftik had just taken off his coat and was doing some ironing in his shirt sleeves, when a peculiar figure appeared in his shop.
This ironing machine has a long handle, and is propelled without danger of burning the fingers by the slipping of the 'ironing rag.
On Thursday, the ironing is finished off, the clothes are folded and put away, and all articles which need mending are put in the mending-basket, and attended to.
Have the green wood logs in one pile, dry wood in another, oven wood in another, kindlings and chips in another, and a supply of charcoal to use for broiling and ironing in another place.
How would it simplify the burdens of the American housekeeper to have washing and ironing day expunged from her calendar!
Mrs Yabsley, who was ironing among a pile of shirts and collars, looked up, with the iron in her hand.
About one o'clock Mrs Yabsley, who was peacefully ironing shirts in her sleep, was awakened by a loud hammering on the door.
She went on with herironing as she added: "Did you expect you were marrying a virgin?
Tuesdays I could have no company for it was ironing day, and the irons filled up the range and nothing extra could be made.
When the ironing is done on the right side thin paper should be spread over the surface to prevent 'glazing.
There's no ironing of jabots connected with mathematics, but somehow I feel that ironing jabots well makes me more proficient in mathematics.
Old black silks may be improved by sponging with spirits; in this case, theironing may be done on the right side, thin paper being spread over to prevent glazing.
Mistress," said the boy, busy folding the glossy napkins on the ironing table, "the master plans to make a voyage around the world with his family.
He bore it all in an unselfish temper, until one day a big lump of dirt fell upon one of little Lucy's dainty muslin frocks as he was ironing it.
Sky-High stood calmly ironing inside his little house at the end of the grape-arbor.
There is the dinner to be cooked, the bed to be made, the ironing to be done; somebody must do it.
And the dinner, the bed, and the ironing are to be put to the test by some one who sees real values.
When ironing a waist will you do the sleeve or the body first?
Much energy may be saved in hot weather by omitting the ironing of certain articles.
Sprinkle, roll tightly, and leave them until ironing time.
The ironing process is the most difficult art in laundering, and requires good tools, practice, and patience.
There is an economic feature, too, in that poor and rough methods of work in both washing and ironing injure fabrics and shorten their term of usableness.
Wax tied in a cloth is a good cleaner, and should be at hand during the ironing process.
For ironing the skirt have a narrow ironing board, covered with a piece of blanket, to slip inside the dress.
I've never stayed in a hotel anywhere that allowed ironing in the rooms.
In a few more minutes she was ironing away energetically, swaying back and forth in her efforts to keep her balance on the springy bed.
Miss Bethia has commenced your ironingfor you," said he.
Letty ought to calculate to do this ironing for her mother.
Don't you remember telling me about it that night when I was helping Letty to do the week's ironing when Debby was away?
The employee did all the washing, ironing and mending each week, and although she came to her work only at noon, she accomplished as much work during her eight hours as if she began earlier in the day.
Why should she allow them to make use of her kitchen and laundry to do their own personal washing, even providing them with soap and starch, irons and an ironing board, fuel and gas?
She also did some of the ironing; the rest of the ironing was done the next day by the regular employee.
In the London prisons the custom of ironing even the untried males was long and firmly established.
In 1728 the judges reprimanded the warders of the Fleet prison, and declared that a jailer could not answer the ironing of a man before he was found guilty of a crime.
Another had slipped from her neck and was hanging on the corner of the ironing board.
This was quite brightly lighted, for she was ironing and crimping ruffs for the neck, small lace handkerchiefs, and cuffs.
Ironing Board--If possible, board that folds into cupboard.
Have tubs, washing machine, ironing board and plug for electric iron grouped together.
I found her in the kitchen just now, with her face the colour of a peony, ironing out a lot of things.
He found her in the close little kitchen, ironing a pile of handkerchiefs and starched things.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ironing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
