handkerchief
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Afterwards Nawat appeared at a press conference wearing a tuxedo and openly weeping as he theatrically dabbed his eyes with a handkerchief, claiming he had been "betrayed".
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025
Mr. Pärt has referred to music as “the handkerchief for drying my tears of sadness, the source of my tears of joy.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
The suspect wore black, his face covered by a handkerchief, Barrientos said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2025
Indeed, using the flag as a handkerchief has at least twice led to courts-martial.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025
I couldn’t see very much of his face for the handkerchief, but what little I could see was as red as a busted watermelon.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
With Trump’s planned attendance Saturday night at the Washington Hilton, some reporters have said they’ll wear pocket handkerchiefs or lapel pins prominently displaying the words of the First Amendment.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
Her history of Kleenex tissues is a tour de force: We learn that the Kimberly-Clark Corp., which owns Kleenex, played on the fear that reusable handkerchiefs were essentially wads of tuberculosis germs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
The finale should run you through a pack of handkerchiefs, unless you are some sort of heartless monster.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
Others shake their heads, fold handkerchiefs to their faces and look away.
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2025
They were a club of some sort, and all wore workmen's blue smocks, and red handkerchiefs around their necks, and carried a great banner on two poles.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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