towel

as in napkin
a piece of cloth used for drying things She dried her hair with a towel. Here's a towel to wipe up the spill.

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Recent Examples of towel Take a microfiber towel dampened with a mixture of Castile soap and water to clean the remote. Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025 As the temperature surged to two hundred degrees, Solórzano slammed a snowball scented with black pepper and juniper tar onto the rocks, filling the room with a gunpowdery musk, and waved furiously, darting up and down the sauna stairs, tossing his towel in an elegant plume of white. Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025 The hanging loop is great for airing it out on a tree branch, clothesline, or tent pole, and the towel never seems to retain funky odors, even after using it for days in the field. Karthika Gupta, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2025 Testers then placed towels in the warmers, recording their surface temperature before and after a 10-minute heating window, and using additional features like timers and aromatherapy where applicable. Maggie Horton, People.com, 24 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for towel
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Noun
  • First, start by blotting the stain using a paper or cloth napkin, or towel.
    Jolie Kerr, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Sep. 2025
  • But this season, almost everyone who has actually made it to the weddings feels about as interesting as a damp cocktail napkin.
    Laura Bradley, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The older Burnett would put on a top hat, a black suit, a red tie and a red handkerchief.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The heat was now sweltering, my handkerchief sodden with use.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Towel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/towel. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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