Example Sentences

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"It is the painting that is most often reproduced on cards, posters, mugs, tea-towels and stationery. It was also the picture that Van Gogh was most proud of," the gallery says on its website.

From Reuters • Oct. 14, 2022

"I'm going around to my sister's, she's got these Union Jack tea-towels, I'm going to make a dress.'"

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2020

In other words, they made music designed for parties in smoke-filled kitchens adorned with burnt tea-towels and unwashed George Foreman grills.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2013

The image likely to grace millions of tea-towels, mugs and posters in 2012 has not been designed by a top artist or illustrator but by a 10-year-old girl.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2011

Alfaretta had dropped the tea-towels, hot with sunshine and smelling of clover-blossoms, upon her well-scoured dresser, and then turned and looked at her mistress reproachfully.

From John Ward, Preacher by Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell