lint
Example Sentences
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Thirteen billion dollars, beaten by a lint trap.
From MarketWatch ● May 21, 2026
“I can’t tell you how many people think their phone is dead because there is pocket lint in the port,” says Wiens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
He has been but a speck of lint on the Lakers’ lapel, a bit of dust at the end of the Lakers’ bench, a small and irrelevant bystander in the Lakers’ long and arduous journey.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025
As he put it, “The speed of light is never going to go out of style. Gravity, lint, signs, time itself, is not going to go out of style.”
From Salon ● May 22, 2024
The nurse tells Seamus she has to go and he’s to sweep the lint from under my bed and mop up a bit around the ward.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
