Adjective, : This blue suit gets linty quickly. ,linty bits on his coat. From Dictionary.com.
It was a loud, noisy place, and awful dusty and linty. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Edna Y. Hargett, July 19, 1979. Interview H-0163. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
I pulled it, linty, from my pocket and held it out in my palm. From Wordnik.com. [Stones] Reference
Dig into your linty pockets for a quarter and drop it in the slot. From Wordnik.com. [Books by Portland Authors: Rodney Koeneke - Reading Local: Portland] Reference
I just hate adding another product to my routine or linty clothes. From Wordnik.com. [A day late and a dryer short (What if No One's Watching?)] Reference
It trumps all other issues and will be the historic linty and blithe upon this era of history. From Wordnik.com. [Barack Obama has not flip-flopped or betrayed his lefty fans. You need to understand: He's a "visionary minimalist."] Reference
When the mill was stopped off and we was changing the mill or creeling a mill on it was pretty linty. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Icy Norman, April 6 and 30, 1979. Interview H-0036. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Glovemaking was considered on a little higher plane because it wasn't quite as dusty and as linty, but it was all work. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Arthur Little, December 14, 1979. Interview H-0132. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
I usually go for the no-name and then find the crotch slides down to my knees and they get all linty and ugly and uncomfortable. From Wordnik.com. [the necessary infrastructure - A Dress A Day] Reference
Socks I washed multiple times in my German side-loader that had still looked like new became pilly, linty messes in the top-loader. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference
But when she pulled the linty knife out of her apron pocket, it was a plastic non-serrated one that wouldn't cause so much as a paper cut. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
They sat on the grass and staged an impromptu picnic with the things they found in their bags: Three sticks of gum, half a bottle of fruit punch and a linty peanut. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
KRESSLEY: Yes, that really -- you lose hats and gloves, they get linty, and they rub together, and you always run the risk that one of your guests is going to upgrade. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2003] Reference
They were extremely angry when I denied them the treat – all the warnings about not accepting food from strangers paled in comparison to a handful of linty chocolates. From Wordnik.com. [» Protecting the Gift Strocel.com] Reference
But once I pulled it from the drawer filled with hardened rubber band balls, misshapen paper clips, linty gum wrappers and tic-tac boxes filled with aspirin, I was all good. From Wordnik.com. [Catherine Specter: January is National Breakup Month] Reference
Sassy would LOVE a linty hot dog from under the couch cushion. From Wordnik.com. [Blogtimore, Hon] Reference
It was a warm linty gray, the shingles of the old roof almost moss-covered. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of the Land] Reference
Above his uniform of linty gray, Paul's face was pale and without expression. From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
Above his uniform of linty gray, Pauls face was pale and without expression. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 24] Reference
Poor little linty-locked ones, imprisoned in the tiny cot in those bitter days!. From Wordnik.com. [Big Game A Story for Girls] Reference
He has a linty sort of laugh, not hearty or loud, but something quickly brushed off. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Dully, patiently, he scraped linty grease from the drip-pan, gouged at the mud caked on the wheels. From Wordnik.com. [Babbitt] Reference
He stared involuntarily at his own shirt-cuffs -- they were ragged and linty at the edges and soiled to a faint gray. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
He stared involuntarily at his own shirt-cuffs — they were ragged and linty at the edges and soiled to a faint gray. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Jazz Age] Reference
On the sly my grandmother would pass me a few cents from the linty pocket of her apron giving me access to a little bit of Catholic School candy heaven. From Wordnik.com. [American Thinker] Reference
Milt was realizing -- and hating himself for realizing -- that Bill's face was dirty, his hair linty, the bottoms of his trousers frayed masses of mud, while Bill chuckled. From Wordnik.com. [Free Air] Reference
Above his uniform of linty gray, Paul’s face was pale and without expression. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
His no-questions fee of a hundred an hour was coming straight out of Frawley’s own linty pocket. From Wordnik.com. [The Town] Reference
Awful linty, yes. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Zelma Montgomery Murray, March 4, 1976. Interview H-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Yet Andrew like a linty sang. From Wordnik.com. [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2] Reference
The lint, and it wasn't too linty. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Icy Norman, April 6 and 30, 1979. Interview H-0036. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
It was linty in them then and all. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Harriet Herring, February 5, 1976. Interview G-0027. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Tagged as: howto, interview, linty fresh. From Wordnik.com. [Hide Your Arms] Reference
First with a linty Wad wrapt close about. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants] Reference
Hardie harr harr linty. From Wordnik.com. [Insidious lint] Reference
It looks like a linty rag. From Wordnik.com. Reference
It is linty, furry, tickling, smothering, searing. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
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