fingernail

Example Sentences

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Ireland were hanging on by their fingernails, before a second-half rally threatened to turn a cakewalk into a contest.

From Barron's

One of her original creations, the faded cabaret queen Lola Heatherton, armored herself in plastered-on wigs and stage finery, façades obscuring the jittery desperation of a woman hanging on by the quicks of her fingernails.

From Salon

I yelled in pain and put my bleeding fingernail into my mouth.

From Literature

The Himalayan mountains rise about a third of an inch per year—fingernails grow more than twice as fast.

From Literature

The sewing took effort—the cloth was tough, stiff with age; and several times he jabbed the needle up into the space under his fingernail—but he found it unexpectedly satisfying.

From Literature