dexter
Example Sentences
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I've never found him quite as devastatingly debonair as Clovis Sangrail, with his mulberry eyes and lowered dexter eyelid.
From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2010
And OD is short for oculus dexter, or right eye, not for overdose.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2010
And OD is short for oculus dexter, or right eye, not for overdose.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2010
Sarai’s were at the extremity of the dexter arm—which was a way of saying right, as sinister was a way of saying left—down the long, curved corridor from the gallery.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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It was a long, vaulted arcade that overlooked the garden from the dexter arm of the citadel, and was where dinner would soon be laid out for the five of them.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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