dishrag

Example Sentences

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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

Wrung out like a dishrag, terrified that the pain would return and deeply suspicious of my internal organs, but otherwise OK.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 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

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

I went to the kitchen and came back with water, a soapy dishrag, and a towel.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata