towelling

• “Janey's had loads of babies, put them in towelling nappies and breast fed them all and so have I, plus we also have our laundry balls in common.”

  Sunday Confessions

• “Mine was a kind of towelling bath-robe that I had bought in France when I lost my kit.”

  The Blitzkrieg In Flanders

• “The celeb loses loads of weight, most of their marbles and begins swanning into the BBC Television Centre wearing lilac Pineapple Dance Studio leg warmers and a towelling headband mumbling about "knowing my value on the Strictly tour" and "being pushed to new levels of joy" – which could mean "on the dancefloor" but we all secretly hope means "in the Novotel adjacent to the west London flyover with their mobile phone switched off.”

  The Guardian: Strictly Come Dancing: Grace Dent's TV OD

• “There's nothing suckier than going outside after swimming with that slightly damp feeling that no amount of towelling and drying seems to get rid of into -30 weather.”

  Frozen Friday

• “Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, on track to meet Andy Murray in the quarters, looked right at the top of his game beating Frederico Gil – who was so bedazzed he wasn't quite sure it was over at the end of a 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 tennis lesson, towelling himself down before belatedly going to the net to shake the winner's hand.”

  The Guardian: Australian Open 2012 diary: Craving the word of her Serena majesty

• “He's got a mouth full of paper towelling, and a promise from you to shoot him in the face if he so much as makes a sound.”

  Fictionaut: A Job of Work

• “Catty - Good woman. oh and I love a good terry towelling hat; they look kind of cool.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » Wish I’d taken a photo.

• “Even the terry towelling hats are making a comeback.”

  Cheeseburger Gothic » Wish I’d taken a photo.

• “The Wu-Tang Clan's murky, labyrinthine New York hip-hop seemed like a tough sell until Method Man, a towering attention-magnet clad in a white towelling dressing gown charmed and strong-armed the crowd into life and made it the most thrilling turnaround of the day.”

  The Guardian: U2 at Glastonbury 2011 - review

• “You'll shower and make him a double espresso, which he'll drink while towelling off.”

  Fictionaut: Obituary

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