fingernail

Example Sentences

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

From BBC

We see this giant figure carved out of stone and we forget that he chewed his fingernails and that he suffered from anxiety and that he had doubts.

From Los Angeles Times

All around her fabric fashion brigade, there’s lush tropical foliage and flowers that, upon closer inspection, are revealed to be folded hands bearing long, brightly-colored fingernails.

From Los Angeles Times

There is wine and beer but also gin fizzes and martinis and Alexanders, “Clover Clubs cold as ice cream and pink as fingernail salve” — and highballs, an absolute waterfall of highballs.

From New York Times

If my fingernail hurts a lot, I’ll go to the doctor.

From Washington Post