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
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
She wanted to retrieve her medicine, and if memory serves all these years later, also a hairbrush and a photograph from her apartment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2023
When Bill is looking for the hairbrush, Jo is heading downstairs saying she wants to go home.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2022
“Let’s try it! We’ll just take Miss St. James’s hairbrush and a perfume bottle or two—something to gussy up Theo’s room and make it look as though a young lady lives there.”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
"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
He also has a flair for swiping things; past larcenies include hairbrushes, water bottles and, one time, a spatula, plucked from the counter as it was being used.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2019
Where would we be without people making better hairbrushes, or toothbrushes or mops?
From Washington Post ● Dec. 25, 2017
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
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