How to Use cotton wool in a Sentence
cotton wool
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Wood is full of it, cotton wool has none.
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David George Haskell,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
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The alternative is to break out the cotton wool, bubble wrap and prayer mats for James.
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The Athletic Uk Staff,
New York Times,
13 May 2026
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Everybody’s protected in cotton wool, even then.
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Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Aug. 2025
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This was not so much about wrapping key players in cotton wool but also enclosing them in bubble wrap, doing everything to avoid injury.
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Matt Woosnam,
New York Times,
25 May 2026
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To understand the soul may have required silk, cheesecloth, cotton wool, even offal— but these mundane materials, War- ner shows us, held meaning.
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Harpers Magazine,
23 Sep. 2025
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To understand the soul may have required silk, cheesecloth, cotton wool, even offal—but these mundane materials, Warner shows us, held meaning.
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David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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