socket
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Featuring illuminated eyes in the film, and with original wiring in the right socket, this particular C-3PO head boasts several unique features including a forehead antenna.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Preserved in nearly perfect three-dimensional detail, the skeleton includes a skull with a huge eye socket and an elongated, sword-like snout.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 24, 2026
He needed to get it onto a two-foot-long metal rod called a socket extension.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026
The skull has an enormous eye socket and a long sword-like snout that it used to eat fish and squid.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
Clare hooked a teakettle over the rising fire and placed his monocle over his eye socket.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
According to a new study published in Royal Society Open Science, ancient bees used the empty tooth sockets in the fossilized jaws as tiny nests for their offspring.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
Next she cleaned my face, applied massage cream and gently massaged my face and eye area, manipulating the outer corners of my eye sockets as well as under my brow bones and on my temples.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2026
The single set of temporal fascia—indentations behind the eye sockets that are doubled on a reptile—is one means of scientific definition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
“These sockets saw, and these jaws spoke and swallowed. This is a monument to them. A temple.”
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
The wind practically blows my eyes out of their sockets.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
They kept digging and found a hoard of other artifacts, including socketed ax heads, winged ax heads, cake ingots and blade fragments made of bronze.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2021
In the Positano brochures, they tell you about the view: the impossible blue of the sea, the colorful buildings socketed like Legos into the craggy hillside, the narrow alleyways of shops and restaurants.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2019
Did it require special equipment, perhaps a rope woven around short lengths of bamboo that could be covertly socketed together?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2018
Shoulder-straps and a socketed belt are provided to let the fisherman put his back into his fight with the fish.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is short and is socketed into a shaft which runs to the head of the machine and is driven by gearing as usual.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Tom Kettering returned at the appointed time, to a minute, and took no notice of his own arrival beyond socketing his whip in its stall, in token of its abdication.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
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