washbowl

Example Sentences

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“Had a bowl of cornflakes this morning,” I wrote in my Nationwide Building Society diary, “and 10 minutes later they were in the washbowl upstairs!! It’s Lucozade and arrowroot for me today!”

From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2019

Her head was tilted back in a washbowl, her eyes closed, but her voice still controlled the room.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016

I’d bring a washbowl from the bathroom, and the streams would hit it, like into a milk pail.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2015

When his stepfather leaves the bathroom, Seryozha goes shyly to the washbowl, makes a tentative little splutter of his own, and then dries himself on the same towel his stepfather used.

From Time Magazine Archive

I even got up from the washbowl when he said that.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger