How to Use nonwoven in a Sentence
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The masks will be surgical masks made from a nonwoven fabric.
—Marc Bain, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2020
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Apple said the cloth was made of a nonwoven microfiber but declined to elaborate.
—New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
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Choose a mask that's made from nonwoven textiles when possible.
—Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 8 Jan. 2022
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Bao Jimi, a saleswoman at a nonwoven fabric exporter in Shanghai, said they were also caught off guard by the sudden rise in the yuan’s value last year.
—Stella Yifan Xie, WSJ, 25 Feb. 2021
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One common type is a nonwoven textile made of plastic fibers, often black, that may be perforated with small holes.
—Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2020
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For even more protection, some masks have a nonwoven filter layer, while others have a pocket to add a disposable filter.
—Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 3 Aug. 2020
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A thick, nonwoven landscape fabric made from polypropylene polymers also can help suppress nutsedge growth.
—Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 11 Aug. 2017
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The material is made from fine strands of plastic on a machine about 40 feet long and 20 feet high that operates something like a paper mill, churning out nonwoven fabric with tight pores on giant rolls.
—Tom Simonite, Wired, 29 Mar. 2020
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This lightweight, nonwoven material can be draped directly onto the plants or tented over the row, supported by wire hoops.
—The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 27 July 2018
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Woven or nonwoven polypropylene These bags are made from recycled plastics.
—Julie Washington, cleveland, 9 Feb. 2020
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The nonwoven fabrics industry is lobbying Congress to reverse a D.C. law that regulates wet wipes — the moist, disposable towelettes that have found an emerging market among adults for whom toilet tissue won’t do.
—Jenna Portnoy, Washington Post, 15 June 2017
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Masks made of other materials—surgical masks made of a synthetic nonwoven, meltblown textile, layers of different kinds of cloth, and so on—can gap at the sides and don’t, on their own, fully protect people from getting infected.
—Megan Molteni, Wired, 2 July 2020
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Medium weight nonwoven interface: This fabric is typically washable, so follow the method mentioned above.
—Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 29 Sep. 2020
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Out of 113 sizable companies in the city, the official said, only two have the certificates to sell medical protective gowns in China because the majority of Xiantao’s nonwoven fabric products are for exports only.
—New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
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At the same time, Lydall began rapidly increasing production of nonwoven polypropylene, the critical filtering component of medical-grade N95 face masks.
—Austen Hufford, WSJ, 8 May 2021
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Despite offering max protection, the nonwoven polypropylene material is still breathable, according to more than a dozen reviewers.
—Braelyn Wood, PEOPLE.com, 19 Jan. 2022
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The company specializes in converting giant rolls of nonwoven fabric into smaller rolls that fit inside sanitary wipe canisters.
—Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2020
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Lydall’s exposure to the automotive market is in its technical nonwoven materials and products with applications in air pollution control, home appliance, the automotive industry and other areas.
—Stephen Singer, courant.com, 30 Sep. 2020
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