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Sentence Examples Before she knew it, Stephanie was sitting in a taxi cab, picking at her long fingernails nervously. He let his fingernails grow long, the better to pluck his new classical guitar. The discoloration can also occur in nasal, bronchial mucosa, fingernails and toenails. Lincoln tapped her feet and rubbed a handful of nibbled fingernails up and down her jacket as if fastening and unfastening a zip. Debris from under fingernails should be removed with a nail cleaner under running water. The female who turns up wearing neat, smart clothing with well-groomed hair, fingernails and make-up? His fingers splayed over the clacker, and then he scrapped his fingernails over it, trying to move it further towards him. Dirt and grease under the fingernails is a no-no, as it detracts from a woman's jewellery and alters the taste of finger foods. It seemed to fit among the spots of dried mud caked on her hand and under her fingernails. Irish harpers used their fingernails on the wire strings of their harps, again probably near the soundboard. If you have been stung by an insect, remove the insect's stinger with your fingernails, if possible. Imagine having a dozen TV cameras trained upon you over eight hours with you sporting straggling hair, two-day stubble and dirty fingernails. By the eastern access road the rock is pale and striated by erosion, as if a giant had raked it repeatedly with his fingernails. All subjects were required to remove their jewelry and clip their fingernails to less than a 1-mm free edge. Her fingernails were of medium length, about four centimeters long, and she had painted them dark purple. He dwelt with fastidious detail on her figure and the cleanliness of her fingernails. Jesse Webb did his best to resist the temptation of more ouzo and resorted instead to chewing his fingernails. My skin is so soggy from perspiration that when I scratch it the skin detaches and I end up with clumps of skin under my fingernails. Her long and highly-coloured fingernails were plainly incompatible with the contents of nappies. She just sat there, looking down and quietly picking at the skin around her fingernails. Show More Sentences She looked down, avoiding eye contact as she brought her hands up, fiddling with her fingers and picking at her newly painted fingernails. I paced back and forth in the bedroom, fretting and picking at the skin around my fingernails. All of his fingernails are short and dirty, except for the nail on his right pinkie, which is clean and long. Word on the streets is that once you've been confided in, toothpicks under your fingernails couldn't pry secrets out of you. Common warts usually occur on your hands, fingers or near your fingernails. In fact, he has quite elegant, long fingers and perfectly manicured fingernails. The baby grows fine hair, fingernails and teeth, and the eyes open and close. She dug her fingernails into his wrists in an attempt to free herself from his grip. He scratched at his armrest with his fingernails like they were claws, cracking his knuckles. She was experimenting with a hot pink on her toe nails and lime green on her fingernails. It stuck under her fingernails and blocked her windpipe and made her sneeze and splutter and cough. For thirty years, he dreamed of a finger pick that would feel like fingernails. I always thought torture was bamboo shoots under the fingernails and iron maidens and such. Frivolous, flighty, whining and manipulative, she is a woman hanging on to life by her fingernails. Recent studies show that most germs on the hands reside under the fingernails and cuticles. If teenagers want to dye their hair, paint their fingernails black, or wear funky clothes, it may be worth thinking twice before you object. Engagement must be made with the cutting edge against the cutting edge, hand to the right or left, and fingernails down or up. Sally grabbed Jonah's arm and pulled him back from the railing, her fingernails digging white furrows in his forearm. She was dainty, with short black hair and perfectly painted red fingernails. She looked at her fingernails with great interest and, seeming satisfied, moved on to primp her hair. Show More Sentences Most of the deficiencies involved failure to clean fingernails and to scrub for the required amount of time. Among these lesions, angular stomatitis and glossitis were more prevalent than flattening of the fingernails. She gnaws a steak with her mouth open, picks her teeth with her fingernails, laughs with a porcine snort and drinks beer out of the bottle. Inexperienced writers may choose the obvious detail, the man puffing on the cigarette, the young woman chewing on what's left of her fingernails. He pushed my foot hard, and I screamed, digging my fingernails into his arm. To get the proper grip for this swing, adjust your right hand on the shaft until you can see all five fingernails. Where once there was a certain pride in grubby fingernails, now hard labour seems to be a dirty word. I have been reduced to a quivering heap of tears after getting mushroom gunk under my fingernails when cooking Peter dinner. Bits of Luna had been ground underneath my fingernails, while sap, with its embedded bits of bark and duff, speckled my arms and hands and feet. The hands are huge, but topped with long, fussy fingernails, and he practises vocal exercises to raise his voice. You'll enjoy the movie if your idea of a good time is sitting glued to the edge of your seat chewing your fingernails down to the quick. Mother wore the trousers in our family, and I can still see her before me in her elegant dresses or painting her fingernails. Haley sniped examining her fingernails pretending to act aloof about the whole matter. In addition, the cuticle of the fingernails often gets very ragged, overgrown, and irregular. The make-up people excelled themselves with lots of dirty fingernails and a welter of warts, wens and rotten corpses. On examination she was apyrexial, had splinter haemorrhages on two fingernails, and had a raised jugular venous pressure. Your fingernails are composed of layers of keratin, a protein also found in hair and skin. The slightly flattened spikes were covered with keratin, the same protein found in horns, fingernails, and claws. The structures had probably been covered with keratin, the same protein found in fingernails, horns, and claws. Baleen is made of keratin, the same protein that makes up hair and fingernails, and is strong, yet elastic. Show More Sentences The sting of fingernails in the heel of my hand told me that my fist was clenched. The woman had flung herself against the locked door, clawing at the wood with her fingernails. Her fingernails clawed at the rock, straining to keep hold against the vehement wind. I start to drum my fingernails on my purse, out of habit, boredom, and yes, irritation. The mud fell out of her fingers and she initially felt terrible seeing her neat fingernails devouring the filth but still, she was resolved. The fingernails on my right hand are long and the fingernails on my left hand are short. As a side-effect, I was also cured of my desire for self-abuse, and my craving for fingernails. The arm, now on display at the Museum of London, is lifelike with realistic knuckles, veins and fingernails. He reeked and tears filled her eyes from a mix of his rotten smell and the pain his dirty fingernails were causing as they dug into her cheek. Her fingernails grew long and sharp, able to pierce the skin of a creature in a matter of seconds. My father was a gambler who wore tailor-made silk suits and Italian shoes and had his fingernails manicured once a week. She was an inspired gardener who wrote like an angel, but she was elitist to her fingernails. Scrub all surfaces, including the backs of your hands, wrists, between your fingers and under your fingernails. She tapped her perfectly manicured fingernails on the granite tabletop impatiently. Sophia came up to her, brushing her long manicured fingernails against her cheek. Her fingernails had been carefully manicured to perfection, and coated once with pastel pink nail polish. Her fingernails and toenails were manicured and her toenails had been painted with gold nail varnish. Some women would feel naked without color on perfectly manicured fingernails. The Egyptian barber was also a manicurist, using a razor to trim the fingernails of clients. Biting into this is almost a miniature version of scraping your fingernails along a blackboard. Show More Sentences Skin scrapings obtained from the leading edge of the burrow and under the fingernails are most likely to produce a mite. Jamali also paints on cork, mixing pigments and scratching imagery onto the surface with sticks and his fingernails. The little boy, who was no more than twelve or so years old, was a scarecrow-like kid with more meat in his fingernails than his bones. He smiled as he traced his fingernails down Ford's cheek, then dug them into the front of his throat. See your doctor if you think you have a fungal infection in your fingernails or toenails. Her nail varnish is applied patchily, on bitten fingernails and bitten toenails. For some women, hormonal changes may cause the fingernails and toenails to grow faster than usual or to become brittle or soft. I had painted my toenails and fingernails varying shades of purple, and I was wearing my open-toed heeled sandals. In the blink of an eye, her fingernails and toenails were painted a shade of blue to match her dress. Tinea unguium is a form of ringworm that most commonly infects fingernails and toenails. Careful examination of the fingernails and toenails can provide clues to underlying systemic diseases. Workers often lose fingernails and toenails, and they suffer injuries from the knives, saws, and machinery. By the time she was able to go home, she'd lost much of her hair, her eyelashes, eyebrows, fingernails, and toenails. If you get any solution on your fingernails or toenails, use alcohol to keep your cuticles from turning orange. Get a fresh haircut, trim your fingernails, and shine your shoes if needed. Shave, haircut, fingernails, haircut and blow-dry, and not a molecule of detectable urine in the atmosphere. She had enamelled her toenails silver to match her fingernails. The Pop Stand choir was eerily silent with the dominant sound that of chewed fingernails as handling errors, hospital passes and forced kicks stifled any attempts at rugby. Your fingernails and toenails also are made of the protein keratin. I dig my fingernails into the palm of my hand, it wraps into a fist. Show More Sentences He had rotten teeth, clumpy, nasty hair, and scratchy long fingernails. Rhino horns are made of keratin, the same protein found in our fingernails. She gazed absently at her fingernails, pushing down the cuticles and digging out small pieces of dirt that had become lodged between the nail and skin. Some had the national flag painted on their fingernails and toenails. He begs for food and wears only a loincloth and a cloak, shunning the townspeople and becoming a wretched figure with unkempt hair and long fingernails. She must have been in her early twenties, with a sharp, overstyled haircut and fingernails that announced their impracticality in flashes of silver. With the little protruding nubs of the follower caught by your fingernails, its open-side 10-round magazine doesn't fight you when you insert the cartridges. Skin folds, areas underneath fingernails, ear canals, and other portions of the body that may trap chemicals should be inspected and cleaned carefully. She was the girl that had to carry Buckeye's saddle to the stall yesterday, unless there was another strawberry blonde girl with candy apple red fingernails working for me. The company, based in Marina Del Rey, Calif., makes Voter Control Ink, a dye that stains fingernails and cuticles for up to 48 hours and helps to prevent voter fraud. His toenails had been painted a glittery gold color, and there was also green paint under his fingernails. I painted my fingernails bright green and put on black lipstick. Then he got the fingernails of his right hand under the black tape near the heel and ripped it forward. She was tapping her bright green fingernails against the desk. Her sari was torn, her hair straggling, her fingernails ruined. The infection is more likely in toenails than in fingernails. I stroke his muscles with a soapy washcloth, picking out the embedded flecks of glass with my fingernails. Most of their hair is dyed ebony black along with their fingernails. I clenched my fists so tightly that my fingernails almost drew blood. She scrunched up her face and began picking at her fingernails. Show More Sentences First impressions are everything in the flirting game and a well-groomed man holds more appeal than one with grubby fingernails and scruffy clothes. I drove forward to the entrance and gnawed my fingernails until a man parallel to me on the left honked and waved at me to go, forfeiting his turn through the intersection. His hands were broad and strong with fine, long fingers and, like me, he baked a nut brown under the summer sun until his fingernails glowed pinkly against his skin. The same cells that regenerate clipped fingernails can be used to regrow amputated fingertips, according to new research. Heaviside also reportedly started painting his fingernails pink and had granite blocks moved into his house for furniture. Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea, her fingernails black and broken. A number of studies found that taking large amounts Of the B vitamin biotin resulted in firmer, harder fingernails. And squamous cell carcinoma also develops under our fingernails. He had clubbing of fingernails and an accentuated second pulmonic heart sound. I felt the power in my fingernails to brand the earth with my own scrawl. I had to admit he had nice fingernails and a backscratch would have felt just fine. The Beauty Connection Spa and KOKO Nail set a new record for the most nails filed totalling 50,080 and varnished fingernails of 5,108 people. We trim and then scrub his fingernails and toenails with a toothbrush. Vicky's been up a ladder all morning painting her flat and turps has not been able to get rid of all the emulsion from her fingernails. The strings, usually played with the fingernails, produced a brilliant ringing sound. The sound of fingernails on a chalkboard just makes my skin crawl. Like a person's fingernails, a turtle's scute is made of keratin. Her fingernails scraped across the blackboard, making a shrill sound. The film starts strongly but, 20 minutes in, Kate's constant squealing is like fingernails down a blackboard and Diaz is on autopilot falling over, playing the loveable ditz. Gersten has the patient reach over with her other hand and dig her fingernails into the medial portion of her arm near the antecubital fossa where the blood is being drawn. Show More Sentences He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit. Listen to the Kid and you'll very quickly realise that the saxophone doesn't have to sound like somebody scraping their fingernails across a blackboard. I paint my fingernails crayon-red, wrap a towel around my head like her bouffant, tie my sheets around my chest into a chiffon muumuu just like hers. A man of science, Holmes debunked many of the prevailing misconceptions about death, including the belief that fingernails and hair continue to grow. Examples from Classical Literature She screeched a little and grabbed at the needle-prick with her fingernails. It was a characteristic hand, broad, with spatulate fingernails and a black star on the fleshy ball between forefinger and thumb. And heinie with fingernails growing where his collar button should be? Charley was obviously thinking the same thing, because she'd now unknotted her scarf and was chewing nervously at one of her fingernails. And experts had a forensic match to Elam after finding his skin cells under her fingernails. After Boursier's death he had remarked on the blueness of the fingernails. Then there's another kind of bug that burrows under your fingernails, and if you don't get 'em out, your fingers drop off. Valentin behind his tree was tearing his fingernails with silent fury. Find more words! 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