Example sentences for: eyelashes

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

  • Some Roman authors resorted to palpebrārum pilus lit. eyelids' hair for eyelashes.

  • In Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian eye-hair is used for eyelashes: Swed. ögonhår , Dan. øjenhår , Icel. augnahár .

  • Suddenly forced to keep company with men named Vito and Vinnie, to bury a corpse beside the East River, and to make like a gangster with a voice that's a cross between John Wayne and Tweety Bird, the squeamish Englishman winces, bites his lip, bats his eyelashes, shrugs sheepishly, and looks--yes--adorably abashed.

  • To complicate matters, they also used the plural of eyebrow ( supercilia ) to mean eyelashes.

  • Ossetic has specific designations for eyebrows and eyelashes ( ærphÿg and tsæstÿxau , respectively, as transcribed from Cyrillic).


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