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pillow

[pil-oh] / ˈpɪl oʊ /
NOUN
support
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"The questions that you ask yourself, the moments where your head hits the pillow at night and it's just you in your room, what's going on inside between those two ears?"

From BBC Jul. 24, 2026

That Sybylla does, in fact, resist, choosing independence over love and the possibility of perennial pillow fights, makes “My Brilliant Career” so daring and thrilling.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Big no thanks when I know, eventually, you’ll just bring food right to me and let me sleep with my butt on your pillow at night.

From Salon Jun. 25, 2026

She described McClain as the first to admit being wrong, always helpful with the cooking and asleep before his head touched the pillow.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 7, 2026

She lay her head back on her pillow, and was silent for a while.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo

Hundreds of others, armed with mats, tents and pillows, had done the same.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

The toppings are market-flexible, too: Use whatever chèvre or goat cheese you find, whether it crumbles into little pillows or lands in soft clouds, and turn a leftover hunk of cornbread into crisp, salty crumbs.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

According to the Hisbah, the support package a couple receives includes essential household items needed to establish a new home: beds, mattresses, bedsheets, pillows, furniture and food supplies.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

Reusable ice packs, freezer blocks or cooling pillows may help some people feel more comfortable.

From Science Daily Jul. 29, 2026

She fluffed the pillows, then checked her tiny bathroom and set out a towel.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

“He was wafted bodily up onto the wall and into the mural itself. He felt himself pillowed on clouds, and saw stretching before him a grand panorama of palaces and pavilions,” wrote Pu.

From New York Times May 11, 2020

But a new facade of pillowed concrete, along with arched skylights in the workshop areas, add touches of refinement to what is essentially a space to make artistic messes.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2019

I raced through steep pine forests pillowed with heavy snow and frozen aspens, the Wasatch mountains rolling by in swirls of purple and brilliant white.

From The Guardian Nov. 18, 2016

So, in Bright Star, Keats is not just Romantic but romantic too: head pillowed upon fair Fanny’s breast, mooning about in blue velvet tails, he essentially speaks in his own verse.

From Slate Apr. 26, 2012

And dimly to be seen were many rows of tables, carved of marble; and upon each table lay a sleeping form, hands folded, head pillowed upon stone.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The musical orchestration pillowing their voices is lovely, the singing sincere.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2024

Kaede built the small fire as quickly as she could, and Con pulled Shae’s sleeping form toward it, pillowing her head on a rolled-up blanket.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

Kaede rolled over, pillowing her head on her bent arm to look at him.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

He lay back, pillowing his head on his hands.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

I lie facedown on her bed, pillowing my head on my arms, completely drained in the aftermath of a hellish morning.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland




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