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 […]

1969, Scott Bates, “Fable of the Recalcitrant Sheet of Mimeograph Paper”, in The Carleton Miscellany, volume X, Northfield, Minn.: Carleton College, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43

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]

1986, Mary Woods Bennett, A Career in Higher Education: Mills College, 1935-1974, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California at Berkeley, published 1987, →OCLC, page 153

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.

1991 July 1, “Trademarked for life”, in The Press Democrat, 134th year, number 253, Santa Rosa, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D1, column 1

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.

2009 March 5, chris.ambidge@utoronto.ca, “suggestions?”, in soc.motss (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Jul 2025

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.

2009 May 8, Dorothy J Heydt, “Time to retire?”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Jul 2025

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

1960, John Steinbeck, “To Elaine Steinbeck”, in Elaine A[nderson] Steinbeck, Robert Wallsten, editors, Steinbeck: A Life in Letters, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, published 1975, →ISBN, page 689

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.

1962 February 2, “Cross Campus”, in Dave Young, editor, The Juniatian, volume XXXVIII, number 14, Huntingdon, Pa.: Juniata College, page 2

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

1980 October 10, Dennis Pryor, “Sunk by silly scripts”, in The Age, Melbourne, Vic., page 10

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.

1991 October 10, Jackson Granholm, “In praise of the tumbleweed”, in News Chronicle, Thousand Oaks, Calif., page B-7, column 3

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

2003, Norman Rush, Mortals, Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 253