fingernail
Example Sentences
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The skinny look to the scoreboard - a 27-23 victory - matched with frayed nerves and chewed fingernails.
From BBC
“The fingernails appeared pristine to me,” notes Watson.
"Have I got dirt under my fingernails? Well, I'm trying to turn my brown thumbs green," she laughs.
From BBC
Hewlett had detected metal buried inside some gravel—digging it up, he found a chunk of gold about half the size of his pinkie fingernail.
Except for one picked cuticle on a fingernail, which was ever so slightly rimmed with blood.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
