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

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

From Salon • May 22, 2024

To the untrained eye, it looks like a speck of black lint, not much larger than the tip of a pin.

From New York Times • May 10, 2024

The women gathered around and I showed them what I had while they laughed and did the things women do: flicked lint off my jacket, pressed me on the shoulder to make me sit down.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison