How to Use dental floss in a Sentence

dental floss

noun

• The plot’s as thin as dental floss, the characters scarcely characters at all.
  — Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• Late So Soon — to use dental floss to string up a cow figurine in the kitchen of your own home.
  — Keith Uhlich, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2020
• Quip This price is for the all-plastic dental floss case.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• There are grouse hunters who would rather share the same strand of dental floss with you than their best grouse cover.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
• There was something that looked like dental floss in the second bag.
  — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
• In the past, beauty gurus have relied on hacks like dental floss to nail the look.
  — Lauren Rearick, Allure, 17 Aug. 2018
• That mistake could be solved with a heat gun, some dental floss, and 10 minutes of your time.
  — Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 8 July 2020
• Connor McDavid fires pucks at a grape hung from a piece of dental floss for the made-up-on-the-spot Grape Chally.
  — Michael Blinn, SI.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Don't be shy…orgasms are as much a part of women's health as dental floss—but a lot more fun.
  — Sarah Jio, Woman's Day, 2 June 2016
• And having too much faith in vibes can be like attempting to cross a tightrope made of dental floss.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 14 June 2018
• The rope of bed sheets was bound in dental floss and anchored to a interior pipe and wrapped around their bunk bed.
  — Annie Sweeney, Chicago Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
• Provides five oral health care kits (toothbrush, tooth paste, dental floss) for five youth ages 5 to 18 years old who are served on the Tooth Taxi.
  — oregonlive, 4 Dec. 2022
• A month later, the sales of toothpaste have dropped—along with dental floss, cookies and other items.
  — Judea Pearl and, WSJ, 18 May 2018
• Our connection, once as thick as climbing rope, now felt more like a strand of dental floss.
  — Washington Post, 10 July 2019
• Duct tape and dental floss are standard, but there are many more fine products that can help you with repairs and camp chores.
  — Popular Science, 18 Aug. 2020
• His hands were at the correct 10 and 2 positions on the steering wheel, but stretched between them was a long piece of dental floss.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• Challenge them to create their very own boobie trap out of dental floss, à la Spy Kids.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 6 Feb. 2024
• Slide long piece of unflavored dental floss under log of dough about 1 inch from end.
  — The Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, Good Housekeeping, 24 Apr. 2018
• The good news: Gates must be a regular flosser because his first guess ($4) on dental floss was off by a few cents.
  — Brett Molina, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2018
• There are no reports whether the 15 strips of chewing gum were consumed, nor what happened to the dental floss NASA supplied.
  — David Shribman, latimes.com, 11 July 2019
• Sewing Kit: This should include heavy-duty needles, an awl, and dental floss for thread.
  — Jim Baird, Field & Stream, 1 Dec. 2020
• Using a piece of dental floss, slice the log into 1-inch pieces and place on a baking sheet covered with parchment.
  — Ellise Pierce, star-telegram, 18 Dec. 2017
• Then string the noodles together with dental floss or string.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
• Every year the water department asked — begged — us not to flush dental floss down the toilet.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2019
• So far on Twitter, readers have told me about their kids hoarding piles of pennies, a hammer and a piece of dental floss.
  — New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• Grab a string and use it like a regular piece of dental floss, in between your teeth, around appliances, and under the gum line.
  — Sarah Bradley, Verywell Health, 29 June 2023
• Thirty-eight percent of Americans do not know that dental floss is used between the teeth, not between the tongue and lips.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• Hoping to follow the live hornet back to its nest, researchers used dental floss to tie a tiny radio transponder to the hornet.
  — Author: Thomas Clouse, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Oct. 2020
• In this case, the tofu and buttermilk combined for a chalky texture and the raw ribbons of rhubarb became more like dental floss with each chew.
  — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 2018
• Just slide a long piece of unflavored dental floss under the dough, wrap it around the top and pull tightly in opposite directions to pull the floss through the roll.
  — Meredith Deeds Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024