dishrag

Example Sentences

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Lowe said he grabbed a dishrag and tried to wave the smoke away from the smoke detector — only to have Moose start nipping at the rag and at his finger “aggressively.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2025

What, you expected J Lo to turn up in a smock with her hair tied up in a dishrag?

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2020

Once rumpled as a dishrag, too weak to stand and helplessly tumbled by waves, he was stranded and alone when he was discovered near death on Olympic National Park’s Rialto Beach in August 2016.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2019

It’s thoughtful, disturbing, insightful drama that will leave you as wrung out as a sopping dishrag hung out to dry.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2017

I wouldn’t use it for a dishrag myself.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole