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Meanings of wet towels in English

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Usage of wet towels in English
1
The bathers reappeared on the grass-ridge, racing and flapping wet towels.
The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative
2
He'll just think you're a load of wet towels or something.
Wizard at Large
3
Weeping sisters ran up to him with wet towels and wiped his face.
God don't like ugly
4
Her head felt strange, like it was wrapped in wet towels.
Shadow's son
5
She then covered me in ice and wet towels to bring my temperature down.
The Guardian
6
But she knew that people didn't wrestle with wet towels.
Another life
7
You-fetchsmelling salts, and you-getcold compresses and wet towels.
Timeless
8
He had been wrapping my head with wet towels.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
9
I couldn't resist hanging up my wet towels on my new clothesline before I left.
The wildwater walking club
10
When Mr. Hamshaw opened his eyes, Marie was standing near by with ammonia and wet towels.
Her Weight in Gold
11
Around him he sees and hears the wireheads collapsing like wet towels falling off a rack.
Snow Crash
12
She dropped all the wet towels in the bathtub, then stripped out of her wet clothes.
The girl who chased the moon: a novel
13
Put half a dozen bottles and some hock on the poop with some wet towels round them.
Edward Barry / South Sea Pearler
14
And then for about twenty minutes snatches of conversation floated to me through bundles of wet towels.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919
15
These fellows come up from Oxford with wet towels round their heads to keep the metaphysics in.
The Divine Fire
16
I still think of her wherever wet towels are offered in Chinese restaurants and on old-fashioned airlines.
The gathering
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Wet towels through the time
Wet towels across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common