dishrag
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dishrag
Example Sentences
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Lowe said he grabbed a dishrag and tried to wave the smoke away from the smoke detector — only to have Moose start nipping at the rag and at his finger “aggressively.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2025
But Aleksandr, practically blind to all of this with dishrag ski mask around his head, could only hear the commotion of the waterway.
From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2022
What, you expected J Lo to turn up in a smock with her hair tied up in a dishrag?
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2020
Once rumpled as a dishrag, too weak to stand and helplessly tumbled by waves, he was stranded and alone when he was discovered near death on Olympic National Park’s Rialto Beach in August 2016.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2019
She was a thin, tired-looking woman, reminding Stella of a squeezed-out dishrag.
From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper
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