Example sentences for: eyelash

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

  • eyebrow eyelid eyelash

  • Welsh has a word for brow ( ael ) and a word for lid ( amrant ), but, although there is an expression meaning eyelash, it is a phrase: blew yr amrant (hair of the eyelid, reminiscent of Lat palpebrārum pilus ).

  • And cilium , which meant upper eyelid to Pliny the Elder, acquired in later centuries the senses of eyebrow, eyelid, and eyelash.

  • But Norwegian has øyevipper for eyelash (compare Ger Augenwimper ), and Danish has, in addition to øjenhår , a secondary word for eyelash, øjenvipper .

  • Gaelic rosc (alternating with rasg ) means eyelid and eyelash, as well as eye.


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