dishpan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of dishpan
Example Sentences
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Eliza Tibbets tended them with care, or no, she just nonchalantly watered them with whatever was left sloshing around in her dishpan.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2024
Gingerly hauling Suzanne in a tin dishpan, the fugitives�among them five other women and two small boys�took three hours to squeeze through the 2O-inch shaft to freedom.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The sketches themselves at times are rather forced to beat a dishpan to excite humor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When Catherine is done preparing a meal and cleaning it up, a recurring activity, the reader is left exhausted and with dishpan hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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She turned away and went to the sink, plunging her hands into the dishpan and trying to scrub off some of the soil that had lodged beneath her nails.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
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