rubbing
noun
an act or action of a person or thing that rubs.
rubbings
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pluralof rubbing.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Similarly, a study published in May in the journal Communications Biology found that elephants form complex "sentences" through their various rumbles, ear flags, trunk rubbings and other actions.
From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2024
Macie and his resident partner, Sophie Lynn Morris, also made Måla modeling dough casts of the fissures found on display furniture and crayon rubbings off the splintering cement floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
In 2016 graphic designer Marina Willer created a booklet of neon rubbings; manhole colouring books are available for people seeking mindfulness; and a Shoreditch company offers framed prints of rubbings for £80.
From BBC ● May 14, 2021
Johns later said that his paintings of American flags and targets, which he started making in 1954, represented “things the mind already knows,” which Dienes’s rubbings did as well, and maybe first.
From New York Times ● May 7, 2021
“Now those are some names you don’t see very often these days,” one of the chaperones, passing by and looking down at his rubbings, remarks.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
