Definition: 1. A plant grown in warm countries for the soft white hairs around its seeds that are used to make cloth and thread. 2. Silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state. 3. Fabric woven from cotton fibers.
Use 'cotton' in a sentence:
1. Most of the rugs are simple cotton squares.
2. She was wearing a flowered cotton dress.
3. She was wearing a pretty flowered cotton dress.
4. He wore brown corduroy pants and a white cotton shirt.
5. Maybe we can find something in cotton or silk.
6. They have been bartering wheat for cotton and timber.
7. All the bedding is made of simple, untreated cotton.
8. There's a needle and cotton there.
9. The building stands as the last remaining relic of the town's cotton industry.
10. This is low-lying land and not suitable for cotton.
11. We sell it to the cotton merchant.
12. Cotton is more resistant to being squashed and polyester is more resilient.
13. This pure cotton Oxford shirt comes in three colours.
14. I suddenly cottoned on to what he was doing.
15. Prices start at £ 13.95 a metre for printed cotton.
16. She picked cotton much faster than I.
17. Altus is equidistant from Ozark and Cotton Town.
18. He was wearing cotton pants and an open-necked shirt.
19. They drove through the cotton fields that flanked Highway 17.
20. Cotton was picked and weighed up.
21. That's what I call a really good crop of cotton.
22. It's made of cotton.
23. Last year's cotton crop was an unmitigated disaster.
24. She described him as wearing brown corduroy pants and a white cotton shirt.
25. This area ranks first in the whole country for cotton output.
26. The only difficult part was threading the cotton through the eye of the needle!
27. Microfibre fabrics are three times finer than cotton.
28. Because it was warm, David wore only a white cotton shirt.
29. You can eat cotton candy.
30. The land is cultivated with rice, cotton and vegetable.
31. This material was then put into cotton bags which were weighed and then sewn up.
32. Her cotton dress had ripped down the front.
33. The revamp includes replacing the old navy uniform with a crisp blue and white cotton outfit.
34. Prices start at $13.95 a yard for printed cotton.
35. These shirts are 100% pure cotton.
36. The best material to use for quilting is 100% lightweight cotton.
37. The law prevented the employment of children under ten in the cotton mills.
38. Use a cotton ball to apply the lotion.
39. She took the plug of cotton wool from her ear.
40. The nurse used a wad of cotton wool to stop the bleeding.
41. The sheets are 100% pure cotton.
42. Wipe off any excess make-up with a clean, moist cotton flannel.
43. It is softer than cotton and nylon and has a similar lustre to silk.
44. This year's cotton production exceeds last year's by a big margin.
45. She had cleaned under her fingernails, twirled the wax out of her ears with a cotton bud.
46. Cotton clothing allows your skin to breathe.
47. Wear cotton gloves when cleaning silver, because the acid in your skin can tarnish the metal.
48. Some of the food crops failed. However, the cotton did quite well.
49. His style of humor was very human, and that's why people cotton to him.
50. Cotton prices remain firm and demand is strong.
