lint

Example Sentences

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“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

Gravity, lint, signs, time itself, is not going to go out of style.

From Salon • May 22, 2024

“We have a couch pet hair remover — a reusable manual lint roller — and we’ve given up on black clothing surviving without her presence being known,” Knox says.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2024

His recycled sandwich resembled a rubber band squashed in lint.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman