towel
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You can then progress to standing on a folded towel or foam pad.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
“As silly as that is, it’s one of those little things we use every day,” he says of the towel rig.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
“Often, once the towel is thrown in by those with too much leverage, that’s exactly when the market bottoms,” Andrew Rocco, a stock strategist at Zacks Investment Research, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
Its open crumb absorbs just enough sauce to become more flavorful as it sits, while the soft crust remains easy to eat on a towel without showering your lap in shards.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
A towel to lay on this scratchy straw.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
Then came paper towels, Method cleaner, dish soap, lime sparkling water and grapefruit-scented antibacterial wipes.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Sinden said some parents had told her they were making their own baby wipes with kitchen towels.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Photographs on local media show people lying on benches and platforms, using towels as makeshift blankets.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
Fiber from the plant can be used to make paper towels, toilet paper and other products that are both stronger and softer than wood-based equivalents, executives from Kimberly-Clark said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
She returned with fistfuls of paper towels from the bathroom, half of which she’d soaked in cold water.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
He regularly toweled off his clubs, wiped down his shoes before putting and took on and off his black sleeveless vest.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
Then she sat and toweled her face and adjusted her headband as the chair umpire said, per custom after changeovers, “Time.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022
Before delivering the groceries, I removed them from the plastic grocery store bags and toweled everything down with precious Clorox wipes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
After whisking him out of the Jogger, I carried him into the house, laid him on his big changing table, removed his drenched clothes, toweled him off, and dressed him in dry clothes.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2019
He toweled off as he walked to the table.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
That meant the roof needed to come on, and the court be towelled down.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022
She sat in the shade, her light-brown hair pulled into a tight knot and slicked dark with sweat, and towelled off her powerful arms.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2019
When I glanced over as we towelled off during the break, he didn’t look nearly as tired as I hoped.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016
He towelled himself vigorously, making the muscles of his biceps ripple, then he sat down on the rocks and reached for his pipe.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
He washed his hands and face and towelled himself dry, making little sound.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
After a thorough rinsing and before toweling them dry, I give my scallops a milk bath, letting them soak for as long as it takes to prep my ingredients.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2024
Ruidiaz posted to his Instagram stories video of teammates toweling off.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Medvedev said he felt dizzy afterward and that both he and Rublev rubbed their faces raw by toweling off so frequently.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
When Balogun took to Instagram to post what he thought were generic photos of him posed inside a car and sitting on the grass, toweling off after a workout, U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
“Kind of,” I answered, toweling off a chipped plate.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
But Spicer’s statement that the president “definitely” did not wear a bathrobe was called into question when old photographs of Trump rugged up in towelling and terry cloth were circulated on social media.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2017
He shuffled around their flat on Paris’s chic Boulevard Saint-Germain in his black towelling dressing gown, seeming unusually gloomy as he dunked his buttered toast into milky coffee.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2016
It is modern, covers 800 acres, employs 14,000 and produces a steady 90 tonnes of towelling a day.
From Economist ● Jul. 9, 2015
Demerson, thirty-five, sleek and heavily perfumed in a towelling robe, her soon-to-be new step-father.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2012
“But I am not a fortune-teller,” he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
