pillowcase
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pillowcases
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The kids are “going to have a pillowcase full of candy anyhow.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025
Under the cover of darkness, an underling used satellite imagery to pick his way through vineyards near the prison before tossing a pillowcase over the walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
The haul at one pond on a recent day was enough to fill four sacks, each roughly the size of a large pillowcase.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
They placed hand warmers in the snake’s tank, then put him in a pillowcase with a Ziploc bag of hot water and stuck the pillowcase in an insulated sleeping bag.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 17, 2024
Tess held up a lumpy pillowcase, and I felt myself relax the tiniest fraction of an inch.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Branded pillowcases, glasses and gold-rimmed plates are among the items that have allegedly vanished from the jet.
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2024
By late 2022, more than 100 people were living there in wall-to-wall tents alongside seven-figure bungalows, a shop selling $180 linen pillowcases and the Gold’s Gym that Arnold Schwarzenegger made famous.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
For six months, Braun didn’t step foot outside his apartment, washing his hands until they bled and spending hours compulsively sterilizing and sanitizing his immediate surroundings, including boiling his toothbrush and pillowcases, even fruit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
Now, if you took home economics in school, you might just think of baking brownies and sewing pillowcases.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
Skirts and pencils and toothbrushes and underwear and probably sheets and pillowcases.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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