fingernail

Example Sentences

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The daughter of Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy tycoon jailed in Hong Kong, has expressed concerns about her father's deteriorating health in prison, saying that his fingernails "sometimes fall off" and his teeth are rotting.

From BBC

IBM says 2nm designs can fit up to 50 billion transistors, tiny components smaller than a virus, on a chip the size of a fingernail.

From Barron's

If any fingernail touches the surface I’m tapping—or I think it might have—I start the five taps over or…I don’t know what.

From Literature

Two days after the match, a small bruise appeared under my fingernail.

From BBC

The skinny look to the scoreboard - a 27-23 victory - matched with frayed nerves and chewed fingernails.

From BBC