Cotton Wool

Word COTTON WOOL
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The word "cotton-wool" in example sentences

Oh, dear cotton-wool citizen, please believe me when I tell you that men are killed in prisons today as they have always been killed since the first prisons were built by men. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You are clearly unable to distinguish between a severe risk, which would almost certainly have ended up as a fatality, and a low risk which might result in exactly the sort of cotton-wool regulations you mention. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Catherine had to reassure me that I could not hurt her with a cotton-wool ball and a bowl of tepid water. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Most likely, it was one of the 10 great species of clouds, beginning with low- altitude cumulus ("cotton-wool puffs"), stratocumulus ("a low layer or patch of cloud") and stratus (a "gray overcast layer"). ❋ Peter Pesic (2011)

It was a peaceful, quiet scene, with the sun spilling down over everything, and the blue April sky above, patched with great white cotton-wool clouds. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A bucket and two pans were filled to the brim with cotton-wool swabs and dirty bandages. ❋ Thomas Plastino Martin (2010)

During the Mexican dry season, a peculiar and very distinctive leafless tree often attracts attention because it appears to have large balls of fluffy cotton-wool attached to the ends of its branches. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To open a drawer and see thirty different very beautiful eggs nestling in their compartments on pink cotton-wool was a lovely sight. ❋ Donald Sturrock (2010)

Wispy, cotton-wool clouds slide across the screen, and then the camera dips beneath them, and there’s the city, spread out like a map. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Like it or not - and the BBC does not - this date marks a fundamental challenge to our way of life by a dark ages pathology and cotton-wool obfuscation from the State Broadcaster is a poor substitute for facing into the issue. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There's a theory going around that if you cotton-wool children at a young age from risk taking then when they are off the leash as teenagers the risk taking they employ is often fatal. ❋ Glenda Larke (2008)

The easiest way to protect your kids, IMHO, is to give them every opportunity to protect themselves, and they'll never learn to do that if they're wrapped in cotton-wool. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gordon Brown is so concerned that the cotton-wool culture is denying people the freedom to enjoy themselves that he has asked the watchdog to report to him personally. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2008)

The Risk and Regulation Advisory Council will be reporting to PM Gordon Brown, who is concerned that the cotton-wool culture is denying people the freedom to enjoy themselves that he has asked the watchdog to report to him personally. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2008)

“He always seems to me,” she said, “like one of those jewels of fine workmanship which we exhibit but never wear, and keep in cotton-wool.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

He fixed in the window of his room a glass tube, in the centre of which he had placed a ball of gun-cotton, which, as you all know, is ordinary cotton-wool, which, from having been steeped in strong acid, is converted into a substance of great explosive power. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Furthermore, it has been found that experiments made in the manner described above answer well with most infusions; but that if you fill the vessel with boiled milk, and then stop the neck with cotton-wool, you ‘will’ have infusoria. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Stuffing your nose with cotton-wool doused in whisky? ❋ Unknown (2007)

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