lint
Example Sentences
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He waved a tuft of lint in front of my face.
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Angela picked a piece of lint off her blue skirt and then stood at attention, her back perfectly straight, just like in the training videos.
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His recycled sandwich resembled a rubber band squashed in lint.
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Cornelius turned his head slightly as if he was going to answer, but he was only looking at some little bit of lint that had gotten into the tank.
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I guess that was the last straw—old belly-button lint—because we never did that again.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.