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
Especially with the infamous zebra print pillowcase dress and other looks where you seem to tear things up and put different pieces together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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
I lie down on the cot, the paper pillowcase crackling in my ears like radio static.
From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson
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
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
She don’t tell me to iron her pillowcases.
From "Girls Like Us" by Gail Giles
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