LINT in a Sentence

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Example sentences for LINT, such as:
1. Ever since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making lint.
2. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding.
3. What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.
4. Considering that most of your clothes are polyester or cotton blends, the off flow lint is a good fire ignition source.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of LINT
lint
 n.  cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds
 n.  fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers
Classic Sentence:
1  As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII—THE GRANDFATHER
2  Nicolette used up a sheet "as big as the ceiling," as she put it, for lint.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
3  Gillenormand would not permit any one to explain to him, that for the preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor new linen as old linen.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
4  Ever since you were wounded, she has passed her time in weeping and making lint.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—MARIUS ATTACKED
5  She saw that she was tired of the endless knitting and the endless bandage rolling and lint picking that roughened the cuticle of her nails.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Outside the window, beyond the fly-screen that was opaque with dust and cottonwood lint, Main Street was hushed except for the impatient throb of a standing motor car.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  What a pity they didn't stop up the chinks and the crannies though, and thrust in a little lint here and there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
8  "You don't spare anyone," said Julie Drubetskaya as she collected and pressed together a bunch of raveled lint with her thin, beringed fingers.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVII
Example Sentence:
1  Considering that most of your clothes are polyester or cotton blends, the off flow lint is a good fire ignition source.