The word "lint" is correct and usable in written English
It is noun used to refer to tiny particles of fabric or fibers that cling to clothes after they go through the wash. For example, you can use it in a sentence such as: "I had to pick lint off my clothes before I could wear them."
I earmark two Post-it pads to throw out tomorrow, and I already know on the third day I'll throw out these old lint rollers and the cup with a chip on the rim.
My coffee table groans under books, digital devices, coffee cups, lint rollers, newspapers and one or both of my kittens, Ollie and Sebastian.
He has a military man's attention to detail: a visitor to his office describes how he halted the meeting to pick up and dispose of a piece of lint on the carpet.
Finely ground blades (doctor blades) remove excess colour paste from the unengraved areas of these rollers, and each also has a lint blade.
When applied to gray goods, scouring removes substances that have adhered to the fibres during production of the yarn or fabric, such as dirt, oils, and any sizing or lint applied to warp yarns to facilitate weaving.
The seed hair, or cotton fibre, reaching a maximum length of about 6 cm (2.5 inches) in long-fibre varieties, is known as lint.
It's very explicitly represented in the show by a thuddingly literal piece of contemporary work which uses dryer lint as a padding material and decorates the quilt with beautifully embroidered images of the instruments of women's oppression, such as microwave ovens and washing machines.
Make him do a few shifts in the Wishy Washy, checking the bin for urine and underneath the big dryers pulling out all the lint with a big rake like Karen's boyfriend has to do each week.
'The Festival of the Unconscious' at the Freud Museum, London, opens on 24 June Graham Barker and his belly-button lint collection (Rex) Weird collections around the world A bit of fluff Librarian Graham Barker holds the Guinness world record for the largest collection of belly-button lint.
Make sure you clean out the lint catcher in your washing machine and the filter tray under your fridge, both prone to building up germs.
But Marie Amar doesn't use oil and canvas to create her work; rather she painstakingly collects the lint that builds up in her washing machine and layers it, according to colour, to create one-off "dust sculptures".
