Examples of dishrag in a Sentence
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Smack in the middle is Asaf, whom the play proceeds to put through a tribal-political wringer that leaves him — and left me — a limp dishrag.
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
Wrung out like a dishrag, terrified that the pain would return and deeply suspicious of my internal organs, but otherwise OK.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
As Pasher was turning to find the sideline official, Fray reacted to his own shove by flopping onto the ground like a wet dishrag.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 8 June 2023
Being a dishrag extends beyond cooking, of course.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
Their posture resembled a wet dishrag.
—J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2021
But Aleksandr, practically blind to all of this with dishrag ski mask around his head, could only hear the commotion of the waterway.
—Natalia Yermak Nicole Tung, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
The sale, like too much of what the Met does these days, was a damp dishrag.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Nov. 2021
Why the hell not? Go ahead and wear that dishrag on your head and rock out to Queen.
—Allison Hope; Illustration By Leanza Abucayan, CNN, 31 Jan. 2021
Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
Wrung out like a dishrag, terrified that the pain would return and deeply suspicious of my internal organs, but otherwise OK.
—Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
As Pasher was turning to find the sideline official, Fray reacted to his own shove by flopping onto the ground like a wet dishrag.
—Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 8 June 2023
Being a dishrag extends beyond cooking, of course.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
Their posture resembled a wet dishrag.
—J. Michael, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Mar. 2021
But Aleksandr, practically blind to all of this with dishrag ski mask around his head, could only hear the commotion of the waterway.
—Natalia Yermak Nicole Tung, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
The sale, like too much of what the Met does these days, was a damp dishrag.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 4 Nov. 2021
Why the hell not? Go ahead and wear that dishrag on your head and rock out to Queen.
—Allison Hope; Illustration By Leanza Abucayan, CNN, 31 Jan. 2021
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“Dishrag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dishrag. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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