nail file

Example Sentences

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Using these tools and a nail file that Starr had slipped in her pocket when she used the restroom, they cut the zip ties and came up with a plan.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

"And you can sit there with a nail file and try to pry the chiton off; you will lose."

From Science Daily • Mar. 4, 2024

“It’s because when she walks, her knees feel like someone is running a big nail file right through the middle of them again and again.”

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2021

Tom moved back in with his parents for five years while he developed the curvy nail file that made him famous.

From BBC • May 6, 2021

She grabbed the long nail file off the daybed.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns