pillowcase
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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
Clean Our Patch Community Interest Company said volunteers found the items hidden in a pillowcase in a carrier bag near the former railway depot at Laira in Plymouth on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2024
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
Heading back toward her family, Ivy sneaked her hand into the pillowcase.
From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake
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
Use towels, pillowcases or T-shirts to cushion your dishes and other delicate items.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
Now, if you took home economics in school, you might just think of baking brownies and sewing pillowcases.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
Winfrey also told the BBC she “went shopping” at Walmart and Costco to get her supplies, which also included shampoo, diapers, sheets and pillowcases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Her pillowcases don’t have pink and white frills.
From "Ghost Boys" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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