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

Their pupils may be narrowed to a pinpoint, and their lips or fingernails may turn blue or purple.

From New York Times

The woman fought back during the assault, prosecutors said, and DNA was later collected from under her fingernails.

From Washington Post

“After 2003, the people who came to power” — old-guard Sunni and Shiite parties and their affiliated militias and gangs — “did not understand about sharing democracy,” she said, tapping her pale green fingernails on the tabletop.

From Seattle Times

Some of the pieces he picked up were no larger than a fingernail, he later told the criminal court.

From Washington Post