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View definitions for socket

socket

noun as in cavity

noun as in pocket

noun as in slot

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Example Sentences

According to Roberts, Ohtani sustained a shoulder subluxation, essentially a partial dislocation less severe than if his shoulder had fully come out of its socket.

A motorist suffered a broken jaw and eye socket during a robbery in which his vehicle was pulled over by a fake police car after a motorway collision.

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Since then, doctors have fitted a small white sphere in her empty eye socket.

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While he is no stranger to high-pressure situations and large crowds, little could have prepared Dubois for such a momentous night on the grandest stage - and four years on from a loss to another Briton in Joe Joyce, when he suffered a fractured eye socket and was called a "quitter" for taking a knee when failing to beat the count.

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Dubois suffered a broken eye socket during his loss to Joe Joyce in 2020, having taken a knee and missed the count.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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