Example sentences for: eyebrows

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

  • He raises his eyebrows and forgets to take them back down again.

  • Puffed-up with conceit, he takes in a new piece of evidence by raising his eyebrows, expelling a "hmmm," and spinning around to announce his latest theory to locals who regard him with a mixture of awe and embarrassment.

  • I once thought that most languages would have separate words to identify and denote eyebrows, eyelids, and eyelashes, features about as easily and objectively observed as ears or lips.

  • Fox rejoined that "an irreverent comedy that can't raise a clergyman's eyebrows isn't doing its job."

  • 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.


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