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cotton wool

NOUN
  1. soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

How To Use cotton wool In A Sentence

  • You are on a globe that looks like a crystal ball or a marble in a light bed of cotton wool.Sentencedict
  • Apple candy, cotton wool, melon and a mere hint of liquorice.
  • You can do without the cotton wool if you have thick or curly hair. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a mini Wall Street bonanza bull market as these baubles, nicked or begged from Mum, exchanged hands many times over in one fifteen-minute break, moving from one cotton wool-lined matchbox to another. In the Frame
  • The team discovered that pieces of cotton wool dabbed with pyrazine and left next to chicken cages led to a five to ten percent increase in the egg mass of Leghorn chickens.
  • You can't wrap your children in cotton wool for ever.
  • In short, our elite athletes often live a life wrapped in cotton wool and protected from the vagaries of growing up.
  • For many doctors, retinopathy—microaneurysms, haemorrhages, "hard" lipid exudates, microinfarcts of the retinal nerve fibre layer (cotton wool spots)—is synonymous with diabetes.
  • ‘The firm which makes them fills the stout canvas covers with kapok, a substance like silky cotton wool.’
  • Wipe away excess oil with some cotton wool. The Sun
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