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

On the fifth floor, inspectors said, inmates were triple-bunked in a hot cell block where the air conditioners were filled with lint.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2024

As he put it, “The speed of light is never going to go out of style. Gravity, lint, signs, time itself, is not going to go out of style.”

From Salon • May 22, 2024

His impeccable wife tying that impeccable tie, brushing down that black coat, which by six a.m. would be white with the lint blowing about the gigantic room.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson