How To Use Floss In A Sentence

Flossing your teeth daily (or, at a pinch, using a mouthwash) can make you 6.4 years younger.
Strolling vendors sold felt hats, plastic balls, ice cream and candyfloss.
The Go-Betweens reside in a strange hinterland full of candyfloss and loneliness that hovers between critical adoration and public ignorance.
Some people find it easier to use interdental brushes rather than floss.
Waxed and unwaxed floss are the most common.

The seats were wooden hard and the air filled with the smell of sawdust and candyfloss.
I saw a child who was albino, the hair like floss, the eyes with points of pink in them that reached up and grabbed my soul.
The wharves and warehouses on the Floss were busy again, with echoes of eager voices, with hopeful lading and unlading.
Stemming from a Lambrusco variety grown in California, Sainsbury's says it has a distinctive but extremely sweet flavour and yet a surprising taste of candyfloss. Sainsbury's launches candyfloss-flavoured grapes
Although "weak spots" the beginning of cavities may remineralize with luck and usually not with baby molars, you have to remember that once a cavity starts it will get worse even with great brushing/flossing. They Are Just Baby Teeth, Why Fix Them?
Since they taste just like breakfast, you can floss in the morning before eating without worrying about the usually minty taste of floss interfering with the flavors of the meal. Baking Bites » Print » Cupcake Floss
You have a hoop, needle, iron-on transfers and skeins of embroidery floss.
Organisers estimated more than 130,000 people visited Peel Park to hear dozens of free shows and sample the renowned mela food, ranging from pakoras and chana to chocolate crêpes and candyfloss.
She was in the bathroom flossing her teeth when she heard her phone ring.
It's like giving kids fairyfloss for dinner and saying - 'but it is food, and food is good'. Devil's Advocate
Do people still jelly eels and floss candy? Times, Sunday Times
Each cylindrical mirror is balanced on the slimmest of supports: one steel wire, as thin as dental floss, that is attached to the gallowslike frame.
Talk to your child's dentist for advice on flossing those tiny teeth.
Everything else gets recycled - dental floss, hair and nail clippings all go on the compost heap. Times, Sunday Times
Interdental cleaning tools such as dental floss and interdental brushes can help you clean hard-to-reach areas of your teeth, such as between the teeth and under the gumline.
Floss your teeth in public: at the opera, in major metropolitan museums.
I kept a spool of floss next to the keyboard at all times.
Also, some people use a water flosser (like a water pikÂ®) -- again, this goes beyond what a sonic toothbrush can do. Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Mouth Health: Are Sonic Toothbrushes Really Better?
Use dental floss to sew buttons on to heavy fabric such as coats.
When you're younger, you don't listen to your parents, so I really want to say it: hydrate, exfoliate, moisturize, exercise and floss!
Try a flossing ribbon or tape coated with natural waxes like jojoba, beeswax or carnuba to help floss glide between teeth without harming gums.
I could smell popcorn, candy floss and dusk in the air, and I was enjoying every moment of it.
Professional checkups and cleaning are important as well, as is flossing and the use of interdental brushes. The Bright Side of Frugality
By the time the circus packs ups its tent and moves on, patrons will have consumed about three tons of popcorn and 7 000 bags of candyfloss.
Stalls selling tasty hot dogs, burgers, chips, lollipops and candyfloss ensured everyone had the chance to tuck into their favourite food on the night.
And Carrots stood beside auntie's knee, clasping his little mother Floss's hand tight, and looking up in auntie's face with those wonderful eyes of his, which auntie had said truly one could not deceive; and when he had been told all there was to tell, he just said softly, Oh poor mamma! "Carrots": Just a Little Boy
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Your doctor will probably advise you to clean your teeth frequently and to use dental floss. The Medicine Chest - your family's guide to prescription drugs
One pier is vibrant with candyfloss, arcades and people, the other stands derelict and rusty.
There are some fancy new flosses, like Glide or Colgate's Precision.
But personally, I'd be surprised if 20 percent of people actually flossed daily. Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Flossing Alternatives
For hand appliqué, outline the flowers and leaves with three strands of embroidery floss using a backstitch, running stitch or stem stitch.
So the benefits are, one, time saved from not having to floss, and the money saved from not having to buy so much floss.
If I was gagging for a sugar rush and the taste of candyfloss I'd head to the fairground. Sainsbury's launches candyfloss-flavoured grapes
Oh, there are a few marvels of engineering and manufacture: the spoon, dental floss, and the cutting board, to name a few.
Transmitters were attached in 2001 using a figure-eight loop harness made of lightweight cotton embroidery floss.
She bought Davey candyfloss, which came in a polythene bag. THE LEGEND OF CAPTAIN SPACE
As further proof of this there was a continuous drift of wind-blown spume shooting over us like blobs of candy floss.
You might as well just wear dental floss. The Sun
I'm hanging beneath the boat doing a safety stop, eyes fixed on my dive computer, oblivious to the fact that, behind me, a huge albino sperm whale is flossing its teeth on the anchor line.
Tears would be candy floss. Times, Sunday Times
Rinse with antiseptic mouthwash, like Listerine, and floss daily.
A Fight for Flower Power Andy McMillan for The Wall Street Journal Dahlinova Dahlias at Metrolina Greenhouses in Huntersville, N.C. More photos and interactive graphics This year, Home Depot is touting an exclusive "Stellar Blue" ageratum, or floss flower, that hides faded blooms as it grows, requiring less clipping. The Garden Gloves Come Off
Vicky said it tasted of candyfloss, but there was also a sharpness that reminded me of the mouth-lacerating ‘Rhubarb and Custard’ penny chews from when I was little.
Around 1,000 doughnuts were delivered from Harrods and a candy floss machine was installed last night. The Sun
Tears would be candy floss. Times, Sunday Times
Would it not be better if you allow me to submit my material in my customary form and then turn it over to Carol, a damned brilliant girl, to inject the kind of flossy conclusions your readers have come to expect? Centennial
Ours was 25 and it will transform boiled sweets into candy floss, too. The Sun
This wasn't so bad… at least the carpet wasn't pink, she thought as she showed the girls how to braid the colorful floss.
You probably know that flossing removes plaque from between teeth and at the gum line, where periodontal disease often begins.
But, unlike the old circus shows with their clowns and candyfloss, this performance is governed by a sophisticated theatrical sensibility.
A favourite with day-trippers, the small town is crammed with glittering gift shops, candyfloss and tourists.
floss your teeth after every meal
She took to writing candyfloss romances.
Do people still jelly eels and floss candy? Times, Sunday Times
Limiting intake of sugary foods and regular brushing and flossing all contribute to your child's dental health.
A favourite with day-trippers, the small town is crammed with glittering gift shops, candyfloss and tourists.
This may cause minor bleeding when you brush or floss your teeth.
Do I floss my teeth daily? Times, Sunday Times
Though it does soundtrack a sad scene for lovely Kurt, it was one of the world's most sickly songs in the first place, and the Glee treatment turns it so sugary it makes candyfloss taste like salt and vinegar crisps. Glee is back but which song will be the new Don't Stop Believing?
The Flosses bury themselves deeply in denial, while Joe struggles with an unspoken regret.
If you have trouble finding cording in the correct color, consider making your own from embroidery floss or perle cotton, which is readily available in a wide color range.
When I brush vigorously or floss, my gums bleed.
If this occurs your doctor will probably advise you to clean your teeth frequently and to use dental floss. The Medicine Chest - your family's guide to prescription drugs
Perhaps some other marketing pointy-head is working in a lab on grape-flavoured candyfloss? Sainsbury's launches candyfloss-flavoured grapes
You will never pick up any of the important ideas from these suppliers of corporate candyfloss.
I shaved my legs and my underarms, brushed my hair, conditioned twice, washed every inch of my skin in hopes of feeling as fresh as possible and I made it a top priority to cake on some deodorant and floss.
It opens very shapr and bold, with a certain peppery darkness to it and a coolness that can only be likened to heavy wet sand that is slightly bound by flossy rootlets of seashore plants. Archive 2009-01-01
It was an occasion for me to get together with my friends on the East Coast: Herb and Eva Sober and Chris and Flossie Anfinsen from NIH, Bill and Inge Edmond H. Fischer - Autobiography
My dentist likes to say that you don't have to floss all of your teeth, just the ones you want to keep.
Gass - which rhymes with "floss" - has overhauled the identity of Seattle's Best, making it big and bold and completely separate from Starbucks. The Seattle Times
Although I know that every floss will work well enough, I still can't help but contemplate the pros and cons of waxed versus unwaxed, spearmint versus wintermint.
Here, the nostalgic and the brashly new constantly collide, yet there will always be plastic bowler hats and candyfloss on sale as well as somewhere to have your fortune told. Mass Photography: Blackpool Through the Camera – review
I was also in a good mood because I found a shop selling embroidery supplies and there is apparently no equivalent in Heidelberg except the Kaufhof selling a few colors of floss, which is a much bigger town. Wernigerode
Beyond the marquee were swingboats, bouncy castle, a ferris wheel, fatsuits for sumo-wrestling, and a candy-floss and popcorn van.
It's just if I discuss an "electric flosser" or an irrigator, I want to be able to show you what one looks like. Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Flossing Alternatives
We went to an adventure playground, more for me than them, and to the fair, candyfloss and sugar dummies. THE MANANA MAN
She makes images from a digitally sampled cloud which she layers and stretches and distorts into all sorts of weird fairy floss cloudscapes.
Donkeys have been as much a part of the seaside holiday as ice cream and candy floss ever since 1760, when they first used to carry ladies side-saddle to the bathing huts at Brighton.
We brush, floss, use tartar-fighting rinses, and swish around mouthwash to freshen our breath.
Even with a reduced number of stalls, visitors were offered a varied selection of goods, ranging from walking sticks to photograph albums, and candyfloss to doughnuts.
Darning with flosses upon both white and black bobbinet, or silk net, was a very common form of the art, and veils of white with seed or all-over designs darned in white silk floss, may be called the "personal needlework" of the period, and some of the shawls were superb stretches of design and stitching. The Development of Embroidery in America
If you lack good finger dexterity, you may find it helpful to use one of the new flosses, such as Glide, or a commercial floss holder.
And some farmers do cultivate milkweed for its soft, silky floss, which is used commercially as a hypoallergenic filler in pillows, comforters and jacket linings. Undefined
If you floss your teeth, you may continue to do so.
You know that brushing your teeth twice a day and flossing at least once daily are musts.
Instead of realizing that picking a floss is an easy decision, I confuse the array of options and excess of information with importance, which then leads my brain to conclude that this decision is worth lots of time and attention. Wired Top Stories
Safire advises, ‘an obnoxious male showoff seeking to attract females is derided as a floss or as engaged in flossing.’
His light, airy falsetto reminds me of the voice of Green Gartside from Scritti Politti - all candyfloss and angel hair.
Wrap about 18 inches of floss around the middle fingers of both hands.
I run into the bathroom and floss deodorize brush spray the works the usual.
I'll be blending three colors of floss in each knot to match the blocks.
Consumption of garlic, onions, spicy foods, aromatic cheeses and alcohol can produce this transient odour irrespective of brushing, flossing or gargling.
Those snails are served in thin slices rather than whole morsels, and they line a delicate pizza crust spread with a vibrant pesto and decorated with flossy greens. Tom Sietsema on Michel: Richard bets on Tysons Corner -- Diners come up a little short
Ease the rings apart, slip dental floss between them and tie the wool with a knot of floss. The Sun
Your doctor will probably advise you to clean your teeth frequently and to use dental floss. The Medicine Chest - your family's guide to prescription drugs
More addictive tuneage this time draped with Stipe / Morrisey style vocals and flossed with bitter sweet lyrical interplays and finished off with lashings of tasty summery sounding chopping riffs.
A compulsive time-noter, the defense says, she can recount her every step that night, down to when she flossed. The Simpson Strategy
Since mankind discovered the wonder of the silkworm's floss, it has been used for the costliest of garments.
There were patches of band logos and patterned fabrics sewn on with varying colors of thread and tooth floss.
But unfortunately the overall effect is that of musical candyfloss: it's sickly sweet when you're chewing on it, but there's no real sense of satisfaction afterwards.
Let's hope Bieber brushed and flossed shortly after consuming his meal or he might have walked around with a case of halitosis for the rest of the night -- not exactly a dreamy picture. Dr. Harold Katz: Bad Breath in the Media
While all these products are designed to cater to particular consumer niches, they end up duping the brain into believing that picking a floss is a high-stakes game, since it's so damn hard. Wired Top Stories
Unloop the button and use matching floss or thread to wrap around the braid at the mark.
If you walk around the historic districts of Willemstad - Punda, Otrabanda, Scharloo and Pietermaai - you'll spot every hue from ochre or primrose yellow to baby blue and candyfloss pink.
‘You only need a piece of evenweave fabric, some embroidery floss and a pair of scissors to start,’ Huang said.
Details are embroidered using various colours of embroidery floss.
It was a simple test, pitting Gore's PTFE floss against standard nylon floss and asking consumers which they preferred.
I just finished listening to it and I feel like I’ve had my brain flossed. Waldo Jaquith - I want less but better.
Do people still jelly eels and floss candy? Times, Sunday Times
In addition, brush and floss your teeth at least twice a day, and see your dentist if your gums bleed or look red or swollen.
Adam Greenfield throwing Sugar under the bus as another flawed exampled of FLOSS experience. The problem with open source design | FactoryCity
There may be newer, flossier or more accurate guns, but there isn't a tougher, more reliable or safer action out there. The Gun Nut Survey: A highly biased, unofficial poll of 2,000 readers on all things shooting
I still wasn't happy with that so I embroidered, in 3-strand golden-yellow floss, a counterchanging wavy pattern.
The lightweight jacket is perfect for spring and comes in candy floss and military colours. The Sun
I like this CD because it has a nice blend of serious songs and the flossy stuff I like.
Yet the same day she went to the beguinage and bought "Flossy's wedding hdkf, 22 frc – lace scarf, 3 fr., piece of edging, 4 fr. Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
Shyheim On The Raekwon Conflict, His History With The Wu And His Untimely Prison Term [audio] russel simmons said: "wow this card is really neat it has diamonds on the front so i look cool and" flossy "now i am a player. thank you rush card for making all my ......" on GRANDGOOD
Seriously, paying closer attention to policy is a little like flossing your teeth.
Jim turned on the tap and leaned forward, wrapping floss around two fingers while Simon washed his hands in the sink beside him.
Dangling and/or string-like things such as shoelaces, cords, gold chains and dental floss also make excellent toys.
He picked up Flossie and happed her in his coat.
They're probably too busy flossing, teasing their hair and singing along to Judy Garland records to be bothered.
Do I floss my teeth daily? Times, Sunday Times
This small disc is similar in size to a dental floss case. The Sun
Donkeys have been as much a part of the seaside holiday as ice cream and candy floss ever since 1760, when they first used to carry ladies side-saddle to the bathing huts at Brighton.
If you have trouble finding cording in the correct color, consider making your own from embroidery floss or perle cotton, which is readily available in a wide color range.
The cord of the embroiderer answers to the cloisons of the enameller, the surfaces of shining floss to the films of vitreous enamel. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery
In a tale that also relies on face-recognition gizmos—they're deployed as casually as dental floss—the most readily recognizable face belongs to the star, whose features have matured and coarsened with the passage of time. Stylish Spectacle Makes This 'Mission' Possible
While brushing and flossing your pets' teeth is the obvious answer, there are other less digit-threatening ways to go about it.
Or is it because they didn't want to mess up their flossy clothes and track bikes?
I felt like a gluttonous schoolboy, who had overdosed on candyfloss - that is to say, absolutely sick!
Even choosing something as mundane as flossing your teeth four times per week can be a real chore if you hate to floss.
MADAME DE SCHULEMBOURG'S carriage, drawn by two beautiful Hanoverian ponies, cream in colour, with long manes and tails like floss silk, was followed by a britzka; but despatches called away Mr. Revel, and Novalis stole off to his studio. Sketches
Our open-source pal Hans-Olaf Gutmansdottir aka Hog writes in to say that the "FLOSS commmunity" wtf? has been "roiled" by that item as it turns out that their beloved leader, Richard Stallman, the patron saint of the Free Software movement, apparently has been advertising on that site under fake names. Archive 2006-09-01
But, unlike the old circus shows with their clowns and candyfloss, this performance is governed by a sophisticated theatrical sensibility.
‘I know you’re longing to escape’ said the hygienist, with admirable understatement, ‘but I just want to show you how to floss properly. Tortures and Rewards « Tales from the Reading Room
They turned out to be perfect for small, hard-to-store items, like floss, sunscreen, and the scads of miniature soaps and shampoos I like to pilfer from motels.
Professional caterers will be present providing food, tea, coffee and soft drinks for hungry punters and there will be candyfloss and ice-cream for the children.
Stemming from a Lambrusco variety grown in California, Sainsbury's says it has a distinctive but extremely sweet flavour and yet a surprising taste of candyfloss. Sainsbury's launches candyfloss-flavoured grapes
The three tracks featured here taint an otherwise spotless collection of candyfloss pop (with a veneer of badass rock'n'roll attitude).
If you haven't already seen the guy flossing up and down the Main, or posting hard on any given corner of Ste-Catherine, you will soon.
I manoeuvre the dental floss into place in front of an aghast Lucker, and whip them away, as Laverne instructed.
Craft Resources also sells yarn and embroidery floss.
The door opened, letting in a blue-eyed thing with wonderful flossy hair, which was just as shiny and rippling as if nature had "crimped" it instead of that proud and devoted Nursery-maid, Katy McFarland. The Womans Advocate
Put on enough eye make-up to sink a cruise liner and floss. Times, Sunday Times
Infections such as infective endocarditis can occur when bacteria from the mouth enter the bloodstream through small oral injuries that occur most often during normal brushing, flossing or eating. Medlogs - Recent stories
So our collective memories come in the form of flossy videos, foamy champagne toasts and still life magazine covers. Raymond Leon Roker: Notorious: The Biggie Biopic is Great But it Still Doesn't Answer, "Who Shot Ya?"
A flosette is a plastic handle that holds a length of floss.
Ours was 25 and it will transform boiled sweets into candy floss, too. The Sun
Privately, I was a little disappointed; it was like barbe a papa, fairy or candy floss that looked so wonderful but disintegrated into a trickle of pink on your tongue. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » THE BLUEBELL CLUB: Or, Confession of a Literary Crime
But don't worry, there is more than just floss in this dentist's surgery.
The street will be packed with attractions and entertainment including a raffle, live bands, balloon race, hook-a-duck, candyfloss, face painting and hoopla.
We can detect malodours if we smell dental floss or woodsticks that have been used to clean between our teeth.
We had agreed on a set amount of money for each child for such things as candyfloss and fair rides.
Not long after the opening I was flying to Johannesburg over an endless field of candyfloss clouds, so brilliantly lit that the view hurt my eyes.
Conclusion It is considered as an auxiliary therapy in severe chronic periodontitis to administer dental floss or interdental brush.
She was putting the kids to bed and I was in the bathroom looking for some floss.
It was silky, silken, a wonderful silk that veneered and flossed the softly moving, wavy water. CHAPTER XXVIII
The HSE then quietly and politely explains on their website that no, they are not banning Pin the Tail on the Donkey, or conkers, or candyfloss, or flip flops, or pancake races. Johann Hari: Workers Will Die Without Health and Safety Inspections
Obama largely repeated his bromidic message on the Jon Stewart show, where he announced how darn proud he was of Americans for going about their daily business -- educating their kids, showing up for work, taking their vitamins, flossing, walking the dog. Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Tactical Press Conference
Brush your teeth after each meal and floss daily.
I can almost feel the texture of candyfloss in my hair or the stickiness of a toffee apple all over my face.
The World Cup winner was nicknamed Der Afro after his flossy hair, though he might as justifiably have been dubbed Der Aggro in honour of a stirring ability that suggested a past life as a Magimix. Note to England's rugby players: embrace Der Aggro | Harry Pearson
There's some kind of flossy stuff on my fish's body.
Tears would be candy floss. Times, Sunday Times
Your dentist can also advise you on how to floss your teeth properly.
You have a hoop, needle, iron-on transfers and skeins of embroidery floss.
Personal care products such as shampoos, deodorants, dental floss and mouthwash are multi billion dollar industries.
Most pregnant women have some bleeding of their gums, especially while brushing or flossing their teeth.
I brushed I flossed I remained monogamous I douched. Pretty Please, A Rose
I run into the bathroom and floss deodorize brush spray the works the usual.
You have a hoop, needle, iron-on transfers and skeins of embroidery floss.
For example, we do not use bar soap, dental floss, laundry detergent, Q-Tips, antiperspirant, deodorant, charity lotteries, or soup.
Youngsters tucked into tasty fish and chips and candyfloss at the water's edge while others enjoyed some white-knuckle fun on the fairground rides.
He will insist that in some fantastic way his Auntie Flossie’s death is mixed up with our eggbeater, which is what we ambiguously call our magnetic fuse.” Died in the Wool
The dress itself was a beautiful creation, black and pink, latest fashion, covered in embroidery floss, beads and other items that came straight out of a friendship bracelet kit at the mannequin's feet.
I saw a child who was albino, the hair like floss, the eyes with points of pink in them that reached up and grabbed my soul.
You might as well just wear dental floss. The Sun
Hand-stitch the leaf to a blue square using embroidery floss.
Materials ranged from oil paint, house paint and wire to dental floss, toothpicks and cookie tins.
Dental floss removes plaque from between the teeth where the toothbrush cannot reach.
The fairground atmosphere in Hamilton Terrace was enhanced by tightly packed stalls offering treats from cuddly toys to candy floss.
Others perused stalls selling railway memorabilia to the sounds of piped organ music from the fair ground, or enjoyed a burger and candyfloss.
What and Britain conquered a quarter of the globe with candy-floss. That Sunday again
If we as fitness professionals could just convince Americans to watch their diet, exercise regularly and floss, we'd really be getting somewhere.
Spun silk floss is used for the filling and the cover is pure Habotai silk.
Tears would be candy floss. Times, Sunday Times
It's just if I discuss an "electric flosser" or an irrigator, I want to be able to show you what one looks like. Thomas P. Connelly, D.D.S.: Flossing Alternatives
Put on enough eye make-up to sink a cruise liner and floss. Times, Sunday Times
Around 1,000 doughnuts were delivered from Harrods and a candy floss machine was installed last night. The Sun
And never lick your fingers, pick your teeth, or floss at the table.
Everything else gets recycled - dental floss, hair and nail clippings all go on the compost heap. Times, Sunday Times
If you are handy with a needle and embroidery floss, do the same thing using your needlework skills.
This is the kind of cinema which everyone can appreciate simply because it offers something very different from the usual candy floss churned out ninety percent of the time.

How To Use Floss In A Sentence

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