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

After his time on the show, former engineering student Tom Pellereau used the investment to invent and bring to market a curved nail file, which is now stocked by major supermarkets.

From BBC • Dec. 19, 2019

And if I take a nail file or even Eva’s old paring knife— that will do—and scrape away at the gold, it will fall away and there will be alabaster.

From "Sula" by Toni Morrison