Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: floss
IPA transcription: [fl'ɑs]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: floss
    Meaning: use dental floss to clean; "floss your teeth after every meal"
Usage examples
  • It looked like a rose dipped in milk, she thought, this pink and white blossom of girlhood, or like a pink cherub, with its halo of pale yellow hair, finer than floss silk.
  • Her hair was thrown back in an attempt at a coil, though, like her own rebellious nature, it could not brook restraint, and persistently escaped in a hundred little curls that fringed her face and lay upon the soft white nape of her neck like fluffy shreds of sun-lit floss on new cut ivory.