fingernail

Example Sentences

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The kitchen smelled like bacon and sweet butter and the car grease that was always stuck under Mr. Garner’s fingernails.

From Literature

There was a girl named Patrice who had a sparkly shirt, sparkly fingernails, and sparkly barrettes, too, and said her best friend was Simone.

From Literature

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