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
Bad fans, good fans, Jon Snow fans, Sansa fans, whatever outcome you were hoping for, you probably weren’t expecting this one, the happy ending equivalent of a sort-of-clean dishrag.
From Slate • May 20, 2019
She balls the dishrag under one set of finger bones.
From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor
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