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

But Aleksandr, practically blind to all of this with dishrag ski mask around his head, could only hear the commotion of the waterway.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022

What, you expected J Lo to turn up in a smock with her hair tied up in a dishrag?

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2020

Bad fans, good fans, Jon Snow fans, Sansa fans, whatever outcome you were hoping for, you probably weren’t expecting this one, the happy ending equivalent of a sort-of-clean dishrag.

From Slate • May 20, 2019

He picked the dishrag up gently, offering it to Cluny.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques