How to Use baby powder in a Sentence

baby powder

noun
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  • Johnson & Johnson will pay $700 million to settle talc baby powder suit.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 13 June 2024
  • That was when Grant says Menna brought out the baby powder.
    — Cara Kelly, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2020
  • When Trader first came back to the park after that fire, the ash was as fine as baby powder and knee-deep.
    — Kyle Dickman, Outside Online, 9 May 2018
  • To fight off fungi, keep your boys dry with just a sprinkle of baby powder in the morning.
    — Marygrace Taylor, Men's Health, 1 June 2023
  • One day, Luna came by the apartment and sprinkled baby powder on the floor in front of the doors before leaving.
    — Jacqueline Alemany and Alice Crites, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2023
  • The use of baby powder has declined and is a small percentage of J&J’s business now.
    — Cheryl Wischhover, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
  • The bathrooms smelled like baby powder and old lipstick.
    — Emily Ziff Griffin, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
  • To comfort her, an aunt promised to bring her a gift: a bottle of Shower to Shower baby powder.
    — Ellen Barry Hilary Swift, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Brands such as Play-Doh and Johnson & Johnson baby powder were some of the first to use scent as a marketing tool.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Here's to his smooth, cool neck after clippers and baby powder.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Luther wakes up to Five chugging water in the kitchen and then slathering baby powder all over himself.
    — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Dirt that weathers too much can become the texture of baby powder.
    — Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Then, use a Q-tip to dust baby powder all over your lashes, and apply a second coat of mascara.
    — Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 26 Jan. 2018
  • Taking care of a baby has changed quite a bit in recent years—sleep sacks are in, swaddling is out, and baby powder is a big no-no.
    — Gabby Shacknai, Forbes, 1 June 2022
  • This doll, hanging from a meat hook in front of me, is just a dusting of baby powder away from being put into a crate and shipped off to some man.
    — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 13 May 2018
  • Body Glide or baby powder or anti-chafing spray Lots of running equals lots of chaffing.
    — Health.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Other household items can come to the rescue, including dish soap and baby powder for grease stains, and soap and salt for wine spills.
    — Hena Sharma, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The company has been fighting thousands of lawsuits over the talc in its baby powder.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Use powdered sugar, flour or baby powder to make bunny prints on the floor from your front door, or even on the sidewalk outside.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Mesothelioma is caused by the inhalation of asbestos, which has been linked to the use of Johnson & Johnson's baby powder.
    — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2023
  • The baby powder clue could be a reference to Snooki having kids now.
    — Leah Rocketto, Woman's Day, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Lucky for me, however, there’s a new crop of leather pants that require no lotion or baby powder.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 7 Feb. 2022
  • To this day, Sandler said, the scarf carries her mother’s scent of baby powder and Yoshiki perfume.
    — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 23 June 2022
  • The case was brought by a 63-year-old woman with advanced ovarian cancer who had used baby powder for more than 40 years.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The verdict comes in the first test of plaintiffs’ claims of an asbestos ovarian cancer link in use of J&J’s iconic baby powder.
    — Tim Bross, Time, 14 July 2018
  • The smell of baby powder and flowers always reminds me of my grandmother.
    — Jenna Rosenstein, Harper's BAZAAR, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Branch captures the life of a modern rodeo star, from the crushing travel to the baby powder, an essential product given all that leather and sweat.
    — Craig Fehrman, Outside Online, 12 June 2018
  • The recall represents the first time Johnston & Johnson has pulled baby powder from the market.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Dust baby powder over your eyelashes between the first and second coats of mascara to plump up your lashes.
    — Brooke Shunatona, Cosmopolitan, 30 May 2014
  • According to this TikTok, placing baby powder in a sock easily removes wet sand from your body.
    — Melanie Curry, Peoplemag, 3 June 2024

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