Example sentences for: eyebrows

How can you use “eyebrows” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Far be it from Keeping Tabs--who's no stranger to Coke-bottle lenses--to appear unsympathetic to the visually impaired, but we raised our eyebrows just a tad at the Star 's assessment that this "miracle eye surgery saved [Cox's] vision" when the story explains that it was simple vanity about wearing thick glasses that put Cox under the knife.

  • The House overwhelmingly passed--again--a constitutional amendment to ban the desecration of the American flag . Massachusetts Rep.-turned-gubernatorial candidate Joe Kennedy raised eyebrows by speaking in favor of the amendment.

  • Antimony is so called from Greek antimonos , against single(ness) owing to its readiness to react with other substances, but its chemical symbol is Sb, from Latin stibium , the name of a cosmetic and medicinal powder (antimony sulfide) used by Roman women as a hair blackener for their eyebrows, and in ophthalmology (of which there were many Etruscan specialists, thanks in part to the unhealthy swamps of Rome's Tuscan hinterlands) as an eye ointment.

  • This story collection draws praise, along with raised eyebrows in regard to some extra-artistic issues.

  • Martin's idea was to reinstitute the raised eyebrow as an instrument of social commentary and guidance--an idea that itself was supposed to raise eyebrows, and did.


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