1922, w:Willa Cather, w:One of Ours, As soon as Mahailey got used to a washing-machine or a churn, Ralph, to keep up with the bristling march of events, brought home a still newer one.
1953, w:Eric Linklater, A Year of Space, ‘Morning Mrs. Weissnicht. I’ve just heard as how your washing-machine’s gone bung.’
1979, w:J.G. Ballard, w:The Unlimited Dream Company, The entire town mated together, in the leafy bowers that had sprung up among the washing-machines and television sets in the shopping mall, on the settees and divans by the furniture store, in the tropical paradises of the suburban gardens.
1990, w:Rosamunde Pilcher, w:September (novel), The clatter from the kitchen was comforting. Edie, dealing with the breakfast dishes, loading the washing-machine with a weekend’s worth of dirty clothes, and talking to the dogs.
1993, w:António Lobo Antunes, Act of the Damned, Her laundry smacked against the porthole of her washing-machine.
