towel
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You can then progress to standing on a folded towel or foam pad.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
When I visited his Menlo Park, Calif., office, I learned he designed it, all the way down to restroom paper towel dispensers, which he stayed up until 2 a.m. some nights perfecting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Meanwhile, stock-picking fund managers are apparently throwing in the towel, because using your brains to pick good stocks at reasonable prices can’t compete with simple momentum — in other words, with just following the crowd.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Or sleep on top of a wet towel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
“The Hawk,” she said, grabbing a towel and wiping herself off, “strikes again.”
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
Then came paper towels, Method cleaner, dish soap, lime sparkling water and grapefruit-scented antibacterial wipes.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Sinden said some parents had told her they were making their own baby wipes with kitchen towels.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The 24-foot trailer was packed and ready: sleeping bags, towels, backpacks and other items needed for a free four-day summer camping trip for children of incarcerated parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
Photographs on local media show people lying on benches and platforms, using towels as makeshift blankets.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
The side-by-side comparisons of these paper towels, versus some other, more generic towels.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
When he is toweled off after a walk, Campbell puts the wet towel over the floor grill so the heat dries it.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Before delivering the groceries, I removed them from the plastic grocery store bags and toweled everything down with precious Clorox wipes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
After whisking him out of the Jogger, I carried him into the house, laid him on his big changing table, removed his drenched clothes, toweled him off, and dressed him in dry clothes.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2019
“Pitting one group against another doesn’t help anyone,” Hickenlooper said in the ad as he toweled off.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2019
Wraithlike in a toweled robe, her hair wet from the shower.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
That meant the roof needed to come on, and the court be towelled down.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022
She sat in the shade, her light-brown hair pulled into a tight knot and slicked dark with sweat, and towelled off her powerful arms.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2019
When I glanced over as we towelled off during the break, he didn’t look nearly as tired as I hoped.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016
He washed his hands and face and towelled himself dry, making little sound.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
He towelled himself vigorously, making the muscles of his biceps ripple, then he sat down on the rocks and reached for his pipe.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
After a thorough rinsing and before toweling them dry, I give my scallops a milk bath, letting them soak for as long as it takes to prep my ingredients.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2024
Ruidiaz posted to his Instagram stories video of teammates toweling off.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Medvedev said he felt dizzy afterward and that both he and Rublev rubbed their faces raw by toweling off so frequently.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
This week, toweling off seemed unnecessary: No one felt cold leaving the water.
From New York Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
She shuddered, then gathered a handful of silk and started toweling off her hair.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Far from haggling, the man who sold me a towelling gown patiently explained that his prices were fixed, and that even this robe, the biggest in his shop, would not be sufficient to cover me.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2018
And so today Rangers will head to Celtic Park, fearing an almighty towelling.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2017
But Spicer’s statement that the president “definitely” did not wear a bathrobe was called into question when old photographs of Trump rugged up in towelling and terry cloth were circulated on social media.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2017
It is modern, covers 800 acres, employs 14,000 and produces a steady 90 tonnes of towelling a day.
From Economist ● Jul. 9, 2015
“But I am not a fortune-teller,” he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
