handkerchief
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There was a tap on the roof and many soaked shirts and handkerchief in water and pressed them to their mouths.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026
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
Indeed, using the flag as a handkerchief has at least twice led to courts-martial.
From Salon ● Apr. 6, 2025
His glasses were on, and a handkerchief was still tied ’round his face.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
Decades ago, the air was so polluted that her children wore handkerchiefs over their mouths when they went to school.
From Salon ● May 10, 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
Once there, the players frantically waved white table handkerchiefs above their heads to a live rendition of Freed From Desire expertly played by the in-house saxophonist.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2025
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
Dad would turn around, then, and see all of us giggling into our handkerchiefs.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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