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

Huge-eyed with fright, the child watches the giant as he splutters prodigiously at the bathroom washbowl.

From Time Magazine Archive

For all his slightness of body, he looked at that moment ready and able to push the washbowl straight through the floor.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger