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pillow

[pil-oh] / ˈpɪl oʊ /
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When shopping for baby products, Which? advises parents not to buy any self-feeding aid, and that babies under the age of one do not need a pillow to sleep at night.

From BBC Jul. 8, 2026

“I can be your pillow, mommy,” her daughter said, nuzzling into her neck.

From Salon May 27, 2026

“My agent will know the places I like, it will have insight into my finances, my budget, my risk tolerances, all my preferences from the kind of room I like to my pillow type.”

From The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2026

She interviews guests but can also go into a 30-plus minute monologue without a script when she records at iHeart’s midtown Manhattan studios, where ChaCha looks on from a cushy pillow.

From Los Angeles Times May 10, 2026

I think she’s too hungry to nap, but I sing, “Nutty up, nutty down, nutty turn yourself around. Nutty pillow, nutty bed, nutty covers over your head,” and she climbs in bed.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

Then I added the rigatoni and enough pasta water to turn the vegetables velvety, finishing each bowl with the crisp crumbs, little pillows of chèvre and torn basil.

From Salon Aug. 4, 2026

Reusable ice packs, freezer blocks or cooling pillows may help some people feel more comfortable.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

She often does intake for her store at her kitchen table, surrounded by needlepoint pillows made by her Great-Uncle Elliott, who was also an entrepreneur.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

"I'm expecting a mattress pad for my bed and new pillows and things like that."

From BBC May 13, 2026

Great-great-aunt Florentine had stuffed lavender sprigs in her pockets and in her pillows, in her drawers, in her hair—she had been a walking lavender bush.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

“He was wafted bodily up onto the wall and into the mural itself. He felt himself pillowed on clouds, and saw stretching before him a grand panorama of palaces and pavilions,” wrote Pu.

From New York Times May 11, 2020

But a new facade of pillowed concrete, along with arched skylights in the workshop areas, add touches of refinement to what is essentially a space to make artistic messes.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2019

I raced through steep pine forests pillowed with heavy snow and frozen aspens, the Wasatch mountains rolling by in swirls of purple and brilliant white.

From The Guardian Nov. 18, 2016

So, in Bright Star, Keats is not just Romantic but romantic too: head pillowed upon fair Fanny’s breast, mooning about in blue velvet tails, he essentially speaks in his own verse.

From Slate Apr. 26, 2012

The man lay back with his head pillowed on a heap of cut grass.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

The musical orchestration pillowing their voices is lovely, the singing sincere.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2024

Kaede built the small fire as quickly as she could, and Con pulled Shae’s sleeping form toward it, pillowing her head on a rolled-up blanket.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

I lie facedown on her bed, pillowing my head on my arms, completely drained in the aftermath of a hellish morning.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

Kaede rolled over, pillowing her head on her bent arm to look at him.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

He lay back, pillowing his head on his hands.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw




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