lint

Example Sentences

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In any case, Biden allies “who voiced fears were flicked away like lint.”

From Los Angeles Times

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

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

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

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