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

Former England midfielder Fara Williams says West Ham's Estelle Cascarino made a "schoolgirl error" when she was denied the chance to make her debut because of an earring.

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

We meet Selena, a goth “content creator” with green streaks in her hair, a razor blade earring and a spiked choker, who would like to look more approachable, like Alicia Silverstone in “Clueless.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2025

Then he felt the earring loosening, and the cockatoo, the earring firmly in its beak, fell from his shoulder.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole