socket
Example Sentences
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He balled his hands into fists again and pressed them against his eye sockets.
From Literature
Squire and his team could see, from the type of light sockets and electrical outlets visible in the images, that Lucy was in North America.
From BBC
My father, the hardcore pacifist who can’t even squish a spider, reaches for the power cord snaking from the television to the wall socket.
From Literature
The single set of temporal fascia—indentations behind the eye sockets that are doubled on a reptile—is one means of scientific definition.
“These sockets saw, and these jaws spoke and swallowed. This is a monument to them. A temple.”
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
