nail file
Example Sentences
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Using these tools and a nail file that Starr had slipped in her pocket when she used the restroom, they cut the zip ties and came up with a plan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2025
"And you can sit there with a nail file and try to pry the chiton off; you will lose."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024
“It’s because when she walks, her knees feel like someone is running a big nail file right through the middle of them again and again.”
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2021
After his time on the show, former engineering student Tom Pellereau used the investment to invent and bring to market a curved nail file, which is now stocked by major supermarkets.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2019
He began to run the nail file under his fingernails—which were already perfectly clean.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
