dishrag
Example Sentences
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Lowe said he grabbed a dishrag and tried to wave the smoke away from the smoke detector — only to have Moose start nipping at the rag and at his finger “aggressively.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
Smack in the middle is Asaf, whom the play proceeds to put through a tribal-political wringer that leaves him — and left me — a limp dishrag.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
What, you expected J Lo to turn up in a smock with her hair tied up in a dishrag?
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2020
Once rumpled as a dishrag, too weak to stand and helplessly tumbled by waves, he was stranded and alone when he was discovered near death on Olympic National Park’s Rialto Beach in August 2016.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2019
I was as trapped as a roach under a dishrag!
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
