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

Smack in the middle is Asaf, whom the play proceeds to put through a tribal-political wringer that leaves him — and left me — a limp dishrag.

From New York Times • Feb. 27, 2024

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

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2020

Bad fans, good fans, Jon Snow fans, Sansa fans, whatever outcome you were hoping for, you probably weren’t expecting this one, the happy ending equivalent of a sort-of-clean dishrag.

From Slate • May 20, 2019

I let it run for a second to warm up and put a dishrag in the bottom of the sink so the splashing wasn’t too loud.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis