dishrag
Example Sentences
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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
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
We used a special-type tablecloth for dairy meals because you could clean it with a simple dishrag as opposed to washing it.
From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride
