Collocations for "cloth"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "cloth" in context.
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cloth
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [kitchen, furniture, cleaning, dusting] cloth
- a [dry, moist, damp, wet] cloth
- a [piece, strip, yard] of cloth
- [woven, khaki, pleated, patterned] cloth
- [covered, protected, concealed] [by, under] a cloth
- [wipe, clean, rub] with a (damp) cloth
- wipe [clean, off, out] with a (damp) cloth
- removed the [spillage, stains, juice, milk] with a (damp) cloth
- is a man of the cloth
- idiom: [made, created, fabricated] (the story) out of whole cloth
- a cloth [bag, coat, cover, towel, cap, robe]
- has a cloth [interior, exterior, trim]
- [use, wear, wash] cloth diapers
- terry cloth [robe, diapers]
'cloth' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
bandage
- bonnet
- canopy
- clean
- cleaning
- contact
- cue
- damp
- dampen
- diaper
- dry
- flame
- flat
- fold
- goggle
- handkerchief
- limp
- loin
- moist
- napkin
- paper
- pattern
- pin
- reverse
- rinse
- shaft
- shawl
- shot
- sieve
- slime
- sniff
- soaked
- square
- squeeze
- stick
- strip
- stripped
- tainted
- wash
- weave
- wet
- wipe
- wring