Challenges for dry cleaners

Usage examples of stains.

And the stains could have only come from one place: the water of the Caves.

It screeched and scratched its way along the varnished wood for a few feet before stopping in the center, some of its various brain-matter stains still visible.

To hide his emotion, he looked down at his trousers and tried to brush away some of the red stains, but they remained persistently in place.

Here he was given a fine laboratory and a sudden undreamed-of wealth of apparatus and two assistants and enough money so that he could spend sixteen or eighteen hours of his working day among his stains and tubes and cluttering guinea-pigs.

He told himself that the blots, stains and smudges in that billowing, sky-filling cloud were only by chance finding the shape of a face.

The X-shaped wooden crosses were bare, with only stains of blood, urine and excrement to show that living beings had once hung from them in agony.

I passed the remnants of a sacked village, reeking with the smell of burned wood rotting after the long winter and weeping black stains into the scorched earth.

I saw green stains smudging the painted walls and garbage in the waters, the smell rising with the temperature as the sun climbed.

The roof of the hall had fallen in but the walls still stood four square and defiant, fine-dressed stone still visible through the stains of age and decay.

The handle and hinges were dark stains of corrosion on the wood and windblown soil obscured the bottom edge of the door.

Wall stains were notoriously difficult to get out if they had bled through paint.

He watched it, standing there, his arms full of his clothes from the day, the T-shirt with the grass and snot stains rolled into the middle, his jeans and socks a shell surrounding it.

The rear portion of the tower has not been neglected, either, but is clothed with a clinging garment of polished ivy which hides the wounds and stains of time.

The door was streaked with rusty stains that had dripped from the fungus-chewed durasteel sign above.

The older, whose teeth showed scarlet thyssel stains, was called Lesh.