I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bath towel
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She handed him a soft white bath towel.
a beach towel
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They spread out beach towels and opened parasols.
a clean shirt/sheet/towel etc
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Where are all my clean socks?
bath towel
dish towel
hand towel
paper towel
tea towel
towel rail
towel sth dry (= use a towel to dry something )
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Towel your hair dry before using a hairdryer.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clean
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They made me very welcome, then gave me a clean towel and showed me the showers.
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She sits down and blots her sweaty face with a clean towel .
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My baby brother was on top of the refrigerator on a bed of clean nappies and towels in his plastic baby bath-tub.
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There were fresh soaps and clean towels .
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She would give the girl a clean towel and the key to a room and then take your money.
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As well as often mis-clubbing him I might forget to put in a clean towel in the bag or something like that.
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They were then issued with clean shirts and towels .
damp
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He flung the damp tea towel on to the table.
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Return to a clean bowl and cover with damp towel or plastic wrap, or put the bowl inside a plastic bag.
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A damp towel on the brow.
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It sits there shivering in its damp towel until she comes with urine bottle and tube.
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Anaesthetised it was laid on a damp towel for treatment.
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Put in the dough and cover with a damp towel or plastic wrap or place the bowl inside a plastic bag.
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Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them.
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Cover with either a damp towel or plastic wrap, or put the bowl into a plastic bag.
dry
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Rinse the courgettes under cold water, then dry with paper towels .
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Preheat oven to 400 F.. Remove pheasant from marinade and pat dry with paper towels .
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Doug has taken off his glasses and has his head in a dry towel .
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Remove squab from marinade, reserving marinade, and pat dry with paper towels .
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Empty warm water from mixing bowl and wipe dry with kitchen towel .
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Start with fresh, ripe fruit, then rinse carefully in cold water and drain well or pat dry with paper towel .
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Preheat oven to 250 F.. Pat meat dry with paper towels .
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Remove duck and pat dry with paper towels .
fluffy
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After a few minutes she padded back into the bedroom wrapped in a big fluffy towel .
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The little clinic was spotless, painted white, with sparkling chrome fittings, stainless steel instruments and pure white fluffy towels .
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But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket.
fresh
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There were fresh towels in the bathroom, so the likeliest explanation was a nosy chambermaid.
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Their bathroom was stocked with stacks of fresh towels and washcloths.
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Thérèse found Léonie a fresh towel .
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Only rarely did Polly experience such exotic delights as clean sheets, let alone fresh soap and towels .
hot
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It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving.
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Alternatively, she could lie on her stomach with a hot wet towel or a hot-water bottle placed on her buttocks.
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Wrap your hair in a hot towel to maximise the effect.
sanitary
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If you needed a new sanitary towel in the night you couldn't get one.
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So what about sanitary towels and tampons: bleached products that also come into intimate contact with the human body?
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In one room there was a plastic sack full of used sanitary towels .
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Did you realise that even now there are no legal standards for the manufacture of either sanitary towels or tampons?
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Did you also know that in Britain neither sanitary towels nor tampons are sterilised, despite what their individual wrapping might suggest?
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In those days there were no lavatory paper and sanitary towels , so old rags were used.
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Also avoid the use of vaginal deodorants, tampons and bleached sanitary towels .
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In some people it can be heavy enough to need thin sanitary towels .
wet
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Some one rushed out with wet towels to wrap around him.
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Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel .
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Failing that, a wet towel can smother an accidental fire.
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As Kate steps off the plane the heat passes in fierce waves across her face, gagging her like another wet towel .
■ NOUN
bath
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Swallowing convulsively, she rubbed vigorously at her face and hair with a large bath towel until her skin burned.
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She looked round, unseeing, at all the discarded clothes and bath towels looped on the bed and floor.
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That evening my grandmother bundled me, weeping, in a large warm bath towel and tried to explain.
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When he hat finished he reached to the bed and taking the new bath towel put it around her shoulders.
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And now for a cup of tea, she thought, stepping out to wind a large bath towel around her nakedness.
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She was propped in bed, soaking bath towels between her legs, when Andrew came back.
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She was lying flat out on her pink bath towel along the lower level of the dry-heat sauna.
beach
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Room service and beach towels are provided without additional charge.
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He stands, grabs the beach towel .
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The two girls swam until they were tired, then lazed on beach towels on the grass under the palm trees.
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My friends were wearing two and three sweaters and had beach towels draped around their shoulders for extra warmth.
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Bring your own face and beach towels .
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Green in the chrome of the Harley, in the beach towel hung on a peg.
dish
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Richard hands me a dish towel and is off.
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He had folded the thin dish towel over his forearm and stood now with clasped hands.
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Marie Fermoyle turned the sputtering steak, then wiped her eyes with the dish towel .
hand
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Mike, whose own hair is visibly thinning despite careful combing, took the sight of Harvey in a hand towel badly.
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When was the last time anybody saw hand towels or soap or a bog roll?
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Picking up a hand towel from a nearby chair, she wrapped both of Lizzy's wrists tightly.
kitchen
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As she was drying her hair on the kitchen towel , Nora appeared through the dining-room door.
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Empty warm water from mixing bowl and wipe dry with kitchen towel .
paper
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There I dampened some paper towels and wiped the flour off the goodies I'd removed from Flaxperson.
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Preheat oven to 400 F.. Remove pheasant from marinade and pat dry with paper towels .
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I fetch a handful of paper towels from beside the wash basin, walking on tiptoe to avoid bloody footprints.
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Remove squab from marinade, reserving marinade, and pat dry with paper towels .
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In the cloak-room Mrs Frizzell stood in a whirl of used paper towels , like a panting snowshoe hare in a snowdrift.
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Dozens of rolls of paper towels .
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After rinsing her face and hands under the cold running water, she dried them on a couple of paper towels .
rail
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If you have a small bathroom, why not consider a radiator with a built-in towel rail ?
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The alternative to this is a separate, electrically heated towel rail .
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Roll top baths, mixers, heated towel rails , soaps and towels.
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Kicking off his muddy wellingtons, he walked across to the towel rail on the far side of the old-fashioned kitchen.
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The few electrical fittings which are allowed in bathrooms, such as heated towel rails , will already have their own earth connections.
tea
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He flung the damp tea towel on to the table.
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With his other hand, he took the white tea towel from the rack and spread it on the drain board.
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She was drying a plate on a tea towel .
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Don't dry tea towels above cookers, or trail appliance flexes across hotplates.
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Wash dish cloths and tea towels frequently.
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Inside, the usual bored girl presided over a collection of postcards and tea towels .
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Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel .
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The full kit is flexible enough to print on T-shirts, baseball hats, key-rings, mugs, aprons and tea towels .
■ VERB
bring
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I wished I'd thought to bring a towel with me.
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Had I brought a towel , I could have sat myself down on the sand.
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He had brought an old towel from home, planning to wipe Lily's blood with it and then throw it away.
fold
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Swallowing the stiffness in her throat, she folded the towel neatly on to the rail and combed her hair.
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Volunteered to fold towels in the shelter.
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He had folded the thin dish towel over his forearm and stood now with clasped hands.
grab
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They were all supposed to grab towels and run for their lives.
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I grab my towel and wrap it around myself, hiding everything I can.
hold
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Fearon reappeared holding a towel , his black hair glistening wet and rivulets running down his swarthy skin.
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Make sure that the wire retainer clips are pressed down firmly to hold the towel in place.
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He - Herr Schickert - was holding a towel to her neck.
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I see an overweight middle-aged man struggling to close it again whilst trying to hold his towel around his middle.
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It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving.
put
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I am now allowed to put the towels around him to keep him warm.
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When I put the towel down, I pulled my chair a little inside the doors.
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She put the towel round her shoulders and sat down beside him.
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He put his cache of towels and clean plastic bags on the floor of the porch.
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The Boston bar put the towels on as the last cold beer fell into the frosted glasses.
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As well as often mis-clubbing him I might forget to put in a clean towel in the bag or something like that.
take
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When he hat finished he reached to the bed and taking the new bath towel put it around her shoulders.
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Then, taking the towel from the rail in front of the cooker, he wiped his face, head and forearms.
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With his other hand, he took the white tea towel from the rack and spread it on the drain board.
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She takes the towel off me and then squats down and begins brushing bits of hair off of my face with her fingers.
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Converse said, when Smitty took the towel from his mouth.
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He took a towel and wiped it.
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He put it back in the bag and took out the towel , soap and toothbrush.
throw
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But utility developers shouldn't throw in the towel just yet.
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You want to run because you never want to throw in the towel .
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It finally threw in the towel when the Prudential, the last remaining bidder, pulled out earlier this month.
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This is not to say that theater should throw in the towel .
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Finally, last Wednesday he threw in the towel , claiming he could no longer support Blunkett's policy on education.
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Some local manufacturers have simply thrown in the towel .
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Lee Rocker threw his towel into the audience and I caught it.
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By midnight, its masters had thrown in the towel , and put out the computer's original forecast.
use
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I use a small towel or newspapers.
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By the time they left, they had each used one towel , no washcloths.
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Bill Webster of Hilton said that at first it might be voluntary for guests to use their towels twice.
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Maybe he used a towel to pick up the iron teakettle.
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We used up about six towels , and took ages, each of us, to scrub the bath afterwards.
wrap
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John lifted her from the bath and wrapped a towel around her shoulders.
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Mr Barraza wrapped the towel around my shoulders, like a medic covering an open wound.
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She wrapped a towel around her and ran to the sitting-room, swearing under her breath.
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I happened to look up and see this guy a few feet away, wrapped in a towel , staring.
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She had severe bruises to the face and eyes and her head was wrapped in a towel .
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He looked at the thin smear of my blood on his palm, and wrapped a small black towel around my hand.
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People were coming out, wrapping themselves in towels , shivering and complaining.
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Ignoring his shrieks of outrage, I wrapped him in wet towels until his temperature dropped to 102.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
throw in the sponge/towel
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A good 4-5 season sleeping bag is a must for anyone who doesn't throw in the towel the minute October dawns.
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But utility developers shouldn't throw in the towel just yet.
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By midnight, its masters had thrown in the towel, and put out the computer's original forecast.
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If they start to see prices run up, they might throw in the towel.
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It finally threw in the towel when the Prudential, the last remaining bidder, pulled out earlier this month.
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Some local manufacturers have simply thrown in the towel.
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You want to run because you never want to throw in the towel.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bath towel
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After I bury the dolls under the sheets and towels, I pick up my child, placing her against my chest.
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Finally, she covered him with a few towels from the van and left him on the ground.
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Green in the chrome of the Harley, in the beach towel hung on a peg.
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Her body was swathed in towels, except for the gap where her vest was pulled up.
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Mandy, I have a towel over my head.
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Top with warm cracklings that have been warmed in paper towels in the oven.
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Use the Steamatic's crease remover accessory with the towel to remove greasy marks and creases from your clothes and curtains.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He pulled himself up, towelled himself dry, then slipped into his dressing gown.
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She got out of the bath and gave herself a mental shake as she quickly towelled herself dry.