dishrag

Example Sentences

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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

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

It’s thoughtful, disturbing, insightful drama that will leave you as wrung out as a sopping dishrag hung out to dry.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2017

The whole gown was about as worn out as an old dishrag, but I wasn’t about to start complaining.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan