eyelash

Example Sentences

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"The smallest one I did was Shakespeare inside a hair. I couldn't paint it with an eyelash, so I had to paint it with a piece of dust."

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

Years later, when my salary broke six figures, I found myself dropping $20 on a fancy cocktail without batting a designer-mascaraed eyelash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 16, 2025

Can you explain how and why you came up with the eyelash sequence, which you shot in excruciating close-up, and the truly disgusting tapeworm?

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2025

That’s not nearly as dramatic as the mano a mano competition on the track, where some races are over in 10 seconds, the winner decided by an eyelash.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

He took his eyes away from the microscope and looked around the table until he found a wooden stick that had a human eyelash glued to it with a dab of nail polish.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston