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How to use floss in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Floss means a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth. Example: “Flosses are soft, and grey from the female and black from the male.”

Examples of floss by meaning

nounA body feather of an ostrich.

  • Flosses are soft, and grey from the female and black from the male.

verbTo clean the area between (the teeth) using floss.

  • I don't floss very often.
  • I floss my teeth twice a day.

verbTo show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent.

  • As the label's name no doubt implies, these rappers aren't your typical crew, even if they still like to floss and represent their city.2003, Vladimir Bogdanov, All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip-Hop, Backbeat Books, page 554
  • It's impossible to floss wealth without attracting envy.2007, Azie Faison, Agyei Tyehimba, Game Over: The Rise and Transformation of a Harlem Hustler, Simon and Schuster, page 69

More sentences with floss

  • Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.From the entry toffee apple
  • It is recommended to use an interdental brush, or dental floss, to clean between the teeth.From the entry interdental
  • Use one strand of Light Yellow floss to make little fly stitches in the bee's right wing.2020 September 1, Meg Hawkey, Blooms and Blossoms: Sweet Stitcheries Picked from Nature, Martingale, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry right wing
  • Use one strand of Taupe floss and a straight stitch to make the bee's legs.2020 September 1, Meg Hawkey, Blooms and Blossoms: Sweet Stitcheries Picked from Nature, Martingale, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry right wing
  • She haha’d like she ate diamonds for breakfast and flossed with spun gold.2014, Rachel Hauck, A March Bride: A Year of Weddings Novella, Zondervan, →ISBN. From the entry haha
  • The girls were already bagging fairy floss, and stockpiling it as fast as they could.2009, Rex Ellis, “Cocklebiddy, the Sydney Show and Kybo Station: Go with the Flow” (chapter 3), in Go with the Flow, Kent Town, South…. From the entry fairy floss
  • I brushed and flossed my teeth, and got in bed with only my tighty-whities on.2008, Justin Pinnick, Another Funny Memory, page 62. From the entry tighty-whities
  • "I'll match with a dental floss, and raise you a Hot Wheels and a condom."2000, Herb Childress, Landscapes of Betrayal, Landscapes of Joy: Curtisville in the Lives of Its Teenagers, State University of New York…. From the entry hot wheels
  • Half the mouth of each subject was flossed; the opposite site being an unflossed control.1985, Gordon Nikiforuk, Understanding dental caries. From the entry unflossed
  • These are whites, blacks, feminas, byocks, spadonas, boos, drabs and floss.1909 August 12, “Ostrich Feathers of Tripoli”, in Neenah Daily Times, volume 53, number 8,451, Neenah, Wis.; Menasha, Wis., column 5. From the entry white
  • Sergeant Snottle pulled out from under his long black chest plate a piece of pink and blue fairy floss.2011, Jacqueline Delaney, Professor Yish Kabibble in the Curse of the Scruttles, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 22. From the entry fairy floss
  • As he emerges from the washroom tonight, flossed and brushed and boxered, it acknowledges his presence with a cordial flicker.2010, John Gould, Seven Good Reasons Not to Be Good, HarperCollins Canada, →ISBN. From the entry boxered
  • Everyone who goes to Istanbul brings back a comparison with them, just like they would Turkish delight, or floss halva, saray helva, Bolçi chocolates.2020, Baris Biçakçi, The Mosquito Bite Author, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry saray helva
  • After he was struck by lightning, Melnyk suffered chronic problems with his teeth, despite brushing and flossing and using interdentals and even a Water Pic.2012, The Malahat Review, numbers 178-181, page 79. From the entry interdental
  • No buts and no matches and no gumwrappers and no gum, and no paper towels and no dental floss and no hair!1986, Maté, Ferenc, Shipshape : the art of sailboat maintenance, David & Charles, page 278. From the entry gumwrapper

Meaning of floss

  1. noun A thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.
  2. noun Raw silk fibres.
  3. noun The fibres covering a corncob etc.; the loose downy or silky material inside the husks of certain plants, such as beans.

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Questions about floss in a sentence

How do you use floss in a sentence?
Floss is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Flosses are soft, and grey from the female and black from the male.”
What is a short sentence with floss?
“I don't floss very often.”
What does floss mean?
Floss means a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: floss (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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