cotton wad

It took ten to twelve cotton wads to get me off the ground.

She began to clean up cotton wads, the paper from the lancet.

He spoke fast and clearly with the cotton wads out of his cheeks.

Rational thought deserted me the second I popped those cotton wads in my mouth.

A small amount of the substance is placed on the suspect tooth using a cotton wad.

He looks relieved when the nurse tears open a bandage and tapes the cotton wad in place.

Then Ms. Sharif quickly padded the wounds with loose cotton wads.

She had cotton wads stuck in her ears and she was singing, trying to drown out the noise.

The thing wore an impossible beard of cotton wad and had another pile of the stuff atop his head.

The cotton wads apparently were cut from the lining of the boots found in the former Brawley apartment.

To combat the ruckus, Herbie first stuck fingers in his ears, then he tried some tiny cotton wads.

At last he had begun to quiet, and when she thought he was asleep, she had gently pulled the cotton wads from his nostrils.

He inserted cotton wads into his mouth, tucking them inside his cheeks next to his upper teeth; this instantly transformed his face.

"One day in 1923, Leo Gerstenzang found himself watching his wife applying cotton wads to toothpicks in an attempt to reach hard-to-clean areas.

There were, for one thing, the cotton wads in Miss Brawley's nose that spared her the odor of excrement - hardly the sensitive work of an attacker.

Krupp tore from Tex's briefcase a medicine bottle, struggled with the childproof cap, yanked out the cotton wad, tore it in half and stuffed it into his ears.

But he made no trouble about it, merely stood and dropped his trousers and bent over the lab table and jumped a foot when Peter swabbed the spot with the cotton wad dipped in alcohol.

Satisfied, he moved silently to the second room while the other man laid down a cotton wad on the concrete and then placed a small canister on it so quietly that no one could hear a thing.

Using mink lure, an scent impregnated in a large cotton wad placed in a string bag at the back of each steel cage, Mr. Dreisacker sets the traps along rivers, streams and ponds in northern Westchester, going as far south as the Saw Mill River.

A simple whole animal respirometer designed to measure oxygen uptake or CO release consists of a sealed container with the living specimen together with a substance to absorb the carbon dioxide given off during respiration, such as soda lime pellets or cotton wads soaked with potassium hydroxide.

On the other hand, if you take a long glass tube and place a cotton wad that has been dipped in HCl on one end, and another cotton wad that has been dipped into the ammonia, you will certainly see the result of the two volatile substance meeting within the tube.