How to Use baby powder in a Sentence

baby powder

noun
  • 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 | Lgore@al.com, 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
  • In June, Johnson & Johnson agreed to pay $700 million to settle a multistate case regarding the marketing of its baby powder products that contained talc and are believed to have harmed consumers.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 1 July 2024
  • As part of the settlement, Johnson & Johnson has agreed to stop manufacturing and selling baby powder and body powder products containing talc in the United States.
    Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2024

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