hairbrush
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The family prayed as McCormick’s great-grandson built a small plywood coffin that was filled with gifts and necessities for the next world, such as her granddaughter’s artwork and a hairbrush.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2024
In Bryan's absence, cells from his late mother's hairbrush were compared with traces on the victim's vest and clump of hair and found to be a close DNA match, Mr Mably said.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2023
Ferguson’s wig and hairbrush mustache, on the other hand, appear to have been trimmed with garden shears by a distracted makeup artist who was playing Wordle on her phone.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
To residents they are repositories of a hairbrush and a photograph — collective threads of a social fabric that, over time, weave together a life, a family, a history, a neighborhood, a community.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
She pulled a big blue plastic hairbrush from her pocket and started brushing the gold out of her hair.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
"Back in the day, we'd have war zones over hairbrushes," says Raye.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025
As whales were hunted for their oil, people fashioned baleen into products such as hairbrushes and corsets.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2021
Most hairbrushes, in contrast, have spines that stick straight out and gather hair in a yucky mat that requires effort to extract.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 29, 2016
There were the typical items of plastic food packaging, but there were more surprising objects as well: old sandals, hairbrushes, broken childrens’ toys, sweaters—all coated in gray dirt.
From Slate ● May 29, 2015
There, shoved up against one wall, was a giant table covered with postcards, hairbrushes, and bottles upon bottles of hair spray.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
