| First, she led me into the kitchen and pointed to a dark brown linty filament in a ceiling corner vent that could easily have passed for merely the detritus of our lives. |
| The surfaces are lumpy and clotted, linty with escaping threads, amusingly slapdash. |
| Above his uniform of linty gray, Paul's face was pale and without expression. |
| It's not a bad cold, but it's a cold, and this means my brain is covered with a crunchy layer of linty styrofoam packing peanuts. |
| Avoid the use of linty old cloths, because the thread and lint clog the traps and drains. |
| Thick and linty, standing well out from the skin, but not wiry. |
