earring

Example Sentences

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Aizenberg’s lab is developing an e-nose device that livestock would wear as an earring, allowing unconstrained real-time data collection.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

But the 28-year-old defender was denied permission to enter the action because she was wearing an earring that had been covered by tape but could not be taken out.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 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

What happens when you accidentally get an earring in your handful of pills?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025

The cockatoo flapped and squawked until she stuck the novelty earring, its favorite toy, in its beak.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole