towel
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“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
Its open crumb absorbs just enough sauce to become more flavorful as it sits, while the soft crust remains easy to eat on a towel without showering your lap in shards.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026
When he returns from a day of walking cobblestone streets or a bike tour, he expects a warm towel and afternoon tea, not a DJ.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
During hydration breaks and at half-time, a large towel that has been immersed in ice-cold water is more effective.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Occasionally he stops, grabs a random sweatshirt or towel, shakes it out, and tosses it to the floor.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
Fifa has introduced climate-controlled benches, the provision of water and electrolyte drinks, ice, cold towels, fans, mist and shade.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
When players cooled themselves with cold drinks and icy towels during short breaks and took longer halftimes, their core temperatures and cardiovascular strain lowered considerably more than they did after only passive breaks, Brown wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
UPS equips Reyez with hats, sleeves and towels made with cooling technologies developed by Mission, a brand that also supplies the fabrics to professional sports teams and athletes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
New York has designated hundreds of public buildings as cooling centers, extended public swimming pool hours, dispatched volunteers to check on vulnerable residents, and opened cooling stations with misting fans and wet towels.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
She started to clean the table, getting paper towels and cleaning spray and muttering to herself the whole time.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
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
Jackie first, my sister says, our freshly washed hair damp and spiraling over toweled shoulders and pale cotton nightgowns.
From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson
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 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
He washed his hands and face and towelled himself dry, making little sound.
From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
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
Boxy ladies-who-lunch skirt suits had been made from carefully fringed black toweling, and all of it was marked by the tribal signage of the crescent moon that has become Ms. Serre’s equivalent of a logo.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2019
Then, dipping the toweling into the water, carefully she bathed.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
And so today Rangers will head to Celtic Park, fearing an almighty towelling.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 12, 2017
He grabs the towelling barmat on the table.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 26, 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
Mack came back dabbing at his mouth with wet towelling.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
