Meaning of Kleenices | Babel Free

Examples

“Meet Exact Esther, who bought a box of Kleenices.”

“There are a few little air leaks—like behind the refrigerator but I’ve plugged them with Kleenices.”

“Gang, have you retreived^([sic]) your crib sheets, notes index cards, gum wrappers, and Kleenices from the perimeter of the testing area? Last we heard, they were creating a fire hazard.”

“‘Love Story’ stimulated the economy by boosting the sales of Kleenices, a great example of private enterprise Keynesianism.”

“Accompanying the tumbleweed in its trips are the beautiful and multi-colored specimens of Kleenex americanus donated copiously to the freeway viewscapes by generous passing motorists. The tumbleweed is a gracious gift from the Russians, having been imported as a favored ornamental from the steppes of central Asia. The Kleenices, however, are native American in origin.”

““Stop, I’m crying,” she said. “Wait a minute till I find some Kleenices … I know I had some, a new packet.””

“And is ROLODEXES the correct plural? Should it be “Rolodices”, like vertex/vertices? As for me, I still use a Rolodex. In fact I have one on my desktop – right next to a couple of boxes of Kleenices.”

“Let me be crumpled into cabbage / Peeled into carrot strips / Abandoned with the used kleenices holey hermit sacks outcast chewing gum wrappers and all the other paper pariahs of your so-called civilization […]”

“One of the students wrote of her in a meeting following her death that she moved along the eucalyptus pathways like a ship in full sail, and there never was a truer statement. She owned it, and she would pick up the litter in her way. Lynn White once brought down the house in a similar meeting generations later speaking about Mrs. Reinhardt's tendency to pick up the "kleenices" [plural of kleenex] that she found-⁠- [laughs]”

“The U.S. Trademark Association, touchy about misuse of the 600,000 brands and slogans it has registered, just hates it when they’re used generically or uncapitalized. Or used as verbs, or made plural or possessive. So let’s not vick our chests, chapstick our lips or grab kleenexes (kleenices?) when we get the sniffles.”

“If you pull back the shower curtain there, you'll see that the bath is covered with a sheet of 5/8" plywood and has shelves atop. All sorts of stuff stored there, from the extra leaf to the dining table to the repair kits by way of iron and the stock of kleenices.”

“Well, some seem to be expecting it at the moment. And just in case, I'm doing things like coughing into kleenices which I then put in the trash, washing my hands a lot, and not venturing upstairs at all because we have a fourteen-month baby up there.”

“I expect they blow their noses in kleenices. It's a joke, son.”

“I hear "tissue" most often, and "kleenex" rarely. I haven't checked lately which brands are most represented on the shelves, so it's possible that kleenices are no longer dominant on the market here.”

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