wipes

Definition of wipesnext
present tense third-person singular of wipe

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Bryce Harper, star slugger, the Phillie Phanatic's best friend, and baseball hero to children of all ages, brushes his teeth.
    CBS News, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • These stocks have climbed for weeks as the market brushes off the narrative that AI is a threat to the cybersecurity industry.
    Morgan Chittum,Matthew J. Belvedere, CNBC, 27 May 2026
Verb
  • Snow sometimes dusts the surrounding slopes, melting by afternoon into damp earth as manzanita and mountain lilac begin to flower.
    Josh Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • To demonstrate, Ejae smiles to form creases below her eyes, then dusts some brown powder onto the area.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 27 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Plus, its self-cleaning function rinses the brushroll after each use and dumps the debris into the dirt tank.
    Sian Babish, PEOPLE, 5 Apr. 2026
  • Moisture is why LaMarita never rinses cauliflower before tucking it into the crisper.
    Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 2 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • That is, before an actual tornado sweeps through Pine Valley, right in the middle of a black-tie event and in time to boost summer ratings.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • Other cities and towns have passed moratoriums on data centers, as a wave of opposition sweeps the country.
    Blanca Begert, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Verb
  • Prime lips for a perfectly smooth, even application using the 3-in-1 Lip Scrub pen, which gently scrubs away dead skin with super-fine sugar granules and keeps lips hydrated with nourishing shea butter and algae.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • Anti-dictatorship, but for kids Serkis scrubs the story of its violence, at least in any graphic manner.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Verb
  • Enabling healthy habitats for future space explorers The current prototype cleans only a small area at a time, roughly the width of a pencil.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 2 June 2026
  • Eco effort The hotel cleans and bottles its own water in glass containers.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 June 2026
Verb
  • Or take Doofy Gilmore (Dave Sheridan), a lisping dimwit geek who washes with his own spit.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 June 2026
  • Beaches are routinely left covered in trash that washes into the ocean, degrading habitat and threatening marine animals through ingestion and entanglement.
    Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2026
Verb
  • After his teenage son goes missing, Daniel combs the depths of the Vistula River day and night, caught in a grueling, endless routine and torn between the dread of a fatal leap and the fragile hope that his son may still be alive.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 6 May 2026
  • Zayas also combs through the dark web, a criminal haven on the internet where anonymous threat actors try to cause real-world harm.
    Heather Abbott, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
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“Wipes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wipes. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.

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