cotton-ball

• “With its exfoliating, mottled bark and cotton-ball fruit, the plane is a ubiquitous presence in all five boroughs.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Roman Roots of Gotham's London Plane

• “I really have no idea what she is talking about, so I just stare at her and watch her breath make small cotton-ball clouds in the freezing night air.”

  Simon & Schuster: Milo

• “Look, Malia and Sasha made cotton-ball Santas for everyone!”

  Disgrasian: Done With the Holidays and Back to Work: Is Obama As Psyched As We Are?

• “A fresh gang of hatchery fish then takes their place at the cotton-ball buffet.”

  Field & Stream's John Merwin Explores the Lure Lab at Pure Fishing

• “Mr. Campbell, who years ago served as a Febreze spokesman when the products focused more on odor elimination for fabrics, says his cotton-ball experiment didn't work.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Is the Smell of Moroccan Bazaar

• “Trying to keep up morale, Mike, " Reno said through his cotton-ball beard.”

  Step on a Crack

• “She also said her son's wart was gone after three days of having a Vivo-soaked cotton-ball bandaged to it!”

  Waters of Genesis

• “In the Abastos market, for a few pesos each, you'll find cardboard, wire and cotton-ball figures depicting nearly every walk of life.”

  Dia de los Muertos: the dead come to life in Mexican folk art

• “The walk in the humidity was sure to leave me with a puffy head of cotton-ball hair for the rest of the day, but four hours at a desk after two weeks on the beach had me yearning to get out.”

  Missing Justice

• “The few cotton-ball clouds that lingered about the mountain-tops, sole stragglers of the army that had trooped up from the south at the blast of the rain-wind, turned from pink to white.”

  Blindfolded

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