pillowcase
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She describes how Dailey, ever hopeful of being exonerated, stayed fit with the help of an improvised dumbbell made by stuffing a pillowcase with his copious legal paperwork.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Especially with the infamous zebra print pillowcase dress and other looks where you seem to tear things up and put different pieces together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025
Ms Newton-Smith will also say that profits "aren’t just extra money for companies to stuff in a pillowcase, but the key to investment".
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
The haul at one pond on a recent day was enough to fill four sacks, each roughly the size of a large pillowcase.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
She came home from the Welch public library every week or two with a pillowcase full of novels, biographies, and histories.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
By late 2022, more than 100 people were living there in wall-to-wall tents alongside seven-figure bungalows, a shop selling $180 linen pillowcases and the Gold’s Gym that Arnold Schwarzenegger made famous.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
Use towels, pillowcases or T-shirts to cushion your dishes and other delicate items.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
For six months, Braun didn’t step foot outside his apartment, washing his hands until they bled and spending hours compulsively sterilizing and sanitizing his immediate surroundings, including boiling his toothbrush and pillowcases, even fruit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
Now, if you took home economics in school, you might just think of baking brownies and sewing pillowcases.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
Rain-soggy sheets and white pillowcases hung on a washing line.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
