towel
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“This ain’t sweat — it’s tears,” the singer said as he dabbed his face with a towel midway through his concert Wednesday night at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
As a side sleeper, he adjusts its height using a folded towel laid underneath it.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
It was wrapped in a towel in a laundry basket.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
“If a quarterback licks his hands before he throws, or wipes his towel before he hands off—these were all things we were analyzing,” Woodin said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Shifa wordlessly passed him a gunnysack from the boat to use as a towel and took over the oars.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
It was good to see the Rams celebrate their early L.A. history by wearing gold jerseys and by giving the SoFi fans 1951 championship towels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
It started appearing in my parents’ pantry in Costco two-packs, usually beside gigantic cases of bottled water, enough paper towels to absorb a malfunctioning sprinkler system and gallon-sized jugs of olive oil.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
The BofA analysts noted that those same-day delivery facilities carry around 90,000 of Amazon’s frequently purchased products, like paper towels, cough medicine and fresh items.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Now the nine of them sat on the floor in one of their two rooms, one for men and one for women, foil pans of halal food laid on towels, in eerie silence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
After my shower, I picked up one of the hand towels and walked out with it wrapped around me.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
Gary offered Noah his paddle eraser then toweled off the top of his bare head.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
When he is toweled off after a walk, Campbell puts the wet towel over the floor grill so the heat dries it.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Then she sat and toweled her face and adjusted her headband as the chair umpire said, per custom after changeovers, “Time.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022
After whisking him out of the Jogger, I carried him into the house, laid him on his big changing table, removed his drenched clothes, toweled him off, and dressed him in dry clothes.
From Salon ● Jun. 16, 2019
He quickly toweled off, pulled on clean clothes, and ran his fingers through his wet hair.
From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty
That meant the roof needed to come on, and the court be towelled down.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2022
She sat in the shade, her light-brown hair pulled into a tight knot and slicked dark with sweat, and towelled off her powerful arms.
From The New Yorker ● May 29, 2019
When I glanced over as we towelled off during the break, he didn’t look nearly as tired as I hoped.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 18, 2016
He washed his hands and face and towelled himself dry, making little sound.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
He towelled himself vigorously, making the muscles of his biceps ripple, then he sat down on the rocks and reached for his pipe.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
Fernando is over on the bench, toweling off.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2024
After a thorough rinsing and before toweling them dry, I give my scallops a milk bath, letting them soak for as long as it takes to prep my ingredients.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2024
Ruidiaz posted to his Instagram stories video of teammates toweling off.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Medvedev said he felt dizzy afterward and that both he and Rublev rubbed their faces raw by toweling off so frequently.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 6, 2023
I shut off the water, toweling hastily, rushing again.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
"I became known for being in those meetings wearing a towelling robe."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
A jingle of keys emerged, then some coins, and finally, a crumpled sheet of paper towelling.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 25, 2019
It is modern, covers 800 acres, employs 14,000 and produces a steady 90 tonnes of towelling a day.
From Economist ● Jul. 9, 2015
And yet I cherish my years of terrible towelling.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2015
Mack came back dabbing at his mouth with wet towelling.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
