floss

Example Sentences

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She said that in feedback to the senior leadership team, inspectors had said that a boy doing a dance move akin to flossing was evidence of the sexualisation of children at the school.

From BBC

Jasmine rice congee is powerfully savory even before you stir in the sliced scallions, powdered scallions and peanuts and mossy threads of pork floss; the dish is like a minivan with a Ferrari engine.

From New York Times

“I was hanging on by a piece of floss, for 15 years,” he said.

From New York Times

But to Violet, “normal” means something other than a guy who flosses and doesn’t have a creepy fetish.

From New York Times

The two dancers, accompanied by metronomic clicks and clangs, oscillated like parts of a machine built to do a pendular, hip-wagging dance like the floss.

From New York Times