TOWEL in a Sentence

Learn TOWEL from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For TOWEL, below is one of 60 sentences:
Mammy plucked a large towel from the washstand and carefully tied it around Scarlett's neck, spreading the white folds over her lap.

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 Meanings and Examples of TOWEL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
towel
 n.  rectangular cloth or paper for drying or wiping
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  Mammy plucked a large towel from the washstand and carefully tied it around Scarlett's neck, spreading the white folds over her lap.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  That meant four mornings a week in the sweltering, stinking hospital with her hair tied up in a towel and a hot apron covering her from neck to feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  And once, alter such an operation, Scarlett found her in the linen closet vomiting quietly into a towel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Occasionally she dropped the towel and rubbed her hands feebly and looked up at Scarlett with eyes enormous with pain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
5  But there was no time for thinking now, as Melanie called for water, for a cold towel on her head, to be fanned, to have the flies brushed away from her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  Scarlett picked up the small baby and wrapped him hastily in a thick towel.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  Melanie snatched a folded towel from the washstand rack and pressed it against his streaming shoulder and he smiled up weakly, reassuringly into her face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  Hand at her mouth, she stared while Melanie packed a fresh towel against his shoulder, pressing it hard as though she could force back the blood into his body.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
9  But the towel reddened as though by magic.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  "I did not mean to pry--" she said in a muffled voice, her white face reddening, as she hastily pressed the towel back into place.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  When I asked for their mother, one of the girls dropped her towel, ran across the floor with noiseless bare feet, and disappeared.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
12  Tom came out of the house wrapping a quart bottle in a towel, followed by Daisy and Jordan wearing small tight hats of metallic cloth and carrying light capes over their arms.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
13  He unrolled the bottle of whiskey from the towel and put it on the table.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  After a moment Tom got up and began wrapping the unopened bottle of whiskey in the towel.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
15  Looking out of the towel, he caught my eye.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  Bring a towel and some spare clothes.
2  Three of the original five candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have now thrown in the towel.
3  She rubbed her hair dry quickly with a towel.
4  Hang your towel on a hook.
5  If you collect ten coupons from the newspaper, you can get a free beach towel.
6  I'm ready to throw in the towel.
7  We're not going to throw in the towel just because we lost one game.
8  He grabs a towel from the stack behind him and pats his face dry.
9  They scrub on my face and hands with soap, water, and a coarse towel.
10  She hauled me to the washstand, inflicted a merciless, but happily brief scrub on my face and hands with soap, water, and a coarse towel.