Definition of "tumble-dryer" [tumble-dryer]

• A clothes dryer that spins wet clothes inside a cylinder with heated air (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "We have a tumble-dryer, but we also have a bathroom that has a gas-powered drying facility, and gas, my wife assures me, is cheaper than electricity."
• "In no time, or, as he puts it, "exactly three weeks since hell's tumble-dryer went to work on our lives," Vernon finds himself charged with murder as well."
• "Puffed-up politicians on both sides of the House seek from new arrivals a pledge of citizenship that endorses "Australian values" at a time when our values are tangled in a global tumble-dryer."