earring

Example Sentences

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She still wears a bracelet and an earring.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Earlier this month West Ham's Estelle Cascarino was stopped from coming on as a substitute against Chelsea in the Women's Super League because she was wearing an earring.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

The small canvas shows a young woman set on a dark background, her head turned towards the viewer and a pearl earring glinting from beneath her blue and cream turban.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

I enjoyed the unremarked-upon tension of Will returning home from London with a hip haircut and an earring.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

Moira, sitting on the edge of my bed, legs crossed, ankle on knee, in her purple overalls, one dangly earring, the gold fingernail she wore to be eccentric, a cigarette between her stubby yellow-ended fingers.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood