linty

Example Sentences

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The tendriled thing that spread across the aluminum frame was nothing other than linty fuzz that had been knocked off the backside of the blinds.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2021

He has a linty sort of laugh, not hearty or loud, but something quickly brushed off.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2010

Major Major barely recognized him because he was wearing a faded maroon corduroy bathrobe with open seams under both arms, linty flannel pajamas, and worn house slippers with one flapping sole.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

On a railroad siding off the main tracks, men in linty overalls were loading big pasteboard boxes full of cotton thread onto a freight car.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

Somewhere along the way, Pollard crossed paths with a jockey agent named Yummy, a round, toad-eyed, linty man, built low.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand