lint

Example Sentences

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His recycled sandwich resembled a rubber band squashed in lint.

From Literature

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.

From Literature

I guess that was the last straw—old belly-button lint—because we never did that again.

From Literature

“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

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