hairbrush
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The family prayed as McCormick’s great-grandson built a small plywood coffin that was filled with gifts and necessities for the next world, such as her granddaughter’s artwork and a hairbrush.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
In Bryan's absence, cells from his late mother's hairbrush were compared with traces on the victim's vest and clump of hair and found to be a close DNA match, Mr Mably said.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2023
She makes videos for a TikTok audience of 78,000 followers about the things she buys, which includes dupes for Ugg slippers, the Dyson AirWrap thermal hairbrush and Skims, Kim Kardashian’s slinky shapewear brand.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 2023
She wanted to retrieve her medicine, and if memory serves all these years later, also a hairbrush and a photograph from her apartment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
His belongings were still in his apartment in Reykjavik, but who could prove whether a hair taken from a hairbrush really came from Bobby?
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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"Back in the day, we'd have war zones over hairbrushes," says Raye.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025
One royal commentator referred to those corgis as “ghastly little hairbrushes, horrible little brats.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022
As whales were hunted for their oil, people fashioned baleen into products such as hairbrushes and corsets.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2021
“DuPont had developed a nylon microfilament for hairbrushes, toothbrushes and brooms,” Mr. D’Addario said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2014
My grandmother made me a tiny toothbrush, using a matchstick for the handle, and into this she stuck little bits of bristle that she had snipped off one of her hairbrushes.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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