towel
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You can then progress to standing on a folded towel or foam pad.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
When I visited his Menlo Park, Calif., office, I learned he designed it, all the way down to restroom paper towel dispensers, which he stayed up until 2 a.m. some nights perfecting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Or sleep on top of a wet towel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
“Often, once the towel is thrown in by those with too much leverage, that’s exactly when the market bottoms,” Andrew Rocco, a stock strategist at Zacks Investment Research, told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
I gave my last dumpling to the sheep and folded the towel.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Then came paper towels, Method cleaner, dish soap, lime sparkling water and grapefruit-scented antibacterial wipes.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
Sinden said some parents had told her they were making their own baby wipes with kitchen towels.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It was so hot at points during their U.K. trip that they covered themselves with wet towels to cool down at night, since their hotels didn’t have air conditioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The 24-foot trailer was packed and ready: sleeping bags, towels, backpacks and other items needed for a free four-day summer camping trip for children of incarcerated parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
They soaped the glass down with sponges and dried it with the pieces of towels.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
He regularly toweled off his clubs, wiped down his shoes before putting and took on and off his black sleeveless vest.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 18, 2022
Before delivering the groceries, I removed them from the plastic grocery store bags and toweled everything down with precious Clorox wipes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
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
I toweled myself off, apologized to our tour leader and washed down my embarrassment with a cold beer.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2015
When he returned to the warm cave his father had constructed, Joe toweled his hair dry, unpacked his banjo, and pulled a chair up in front of the woodstove.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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
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
When Balogun took to Instagram to post what he thought were generic photos of him posed inside a car and sitting on the grass, toweling off after a workout, U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2023
Frank went back to toweling and fussing over them.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
A jingle of keys emerged, then some coins, and finally, a crumpled sheet of paper towelling.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 25, 2019
He shuffled around their flat on Paris’s chic Boulevard Saint-Germain in his black towelling dressing gown, seeming unusually gloomy as he dunked his buttered toast into milky coffee.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2016
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
“But I am not a fortune-teller,” he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
