bathe
Example Sentences
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Many here lack water to bathe and flush toilets.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
She played the album nonstop: “I was known not to take requests, but now I wouldn’t even change the album. Everyone in the bar was obliged to bathe in the sounds of the future.”
From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026
Even with the help of her daughter, who regularly helps bathe her brother, Wu only sleeps three to five hours a night.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
"I struggled to shower, my partner would sometimes have to bathe me; I physically could not care for myself."
From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026
Each princess, when she came down to bathe in the palace lake, would slip her rings for safekeeping on the tail of her attendant cat.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.