lint

Example Sentences

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“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

Heck, we can’t even make a sandwich without one of us making sure he hasn’t eaten another computer cord or a wad of dryer lint.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2024

The two men kept rolling; broken blades of grass clung to their clothes like green lint.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles