Words similar to eyelashes
Example sentences for: eyelashes
How can you use “eyelashes” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Asked about the incident, he'd wince, bite his lip, bat his eyelashes, shrug sheepishly, and look adorably abashed.
An Old Icelandic kenning, hvarm-skógr , literally, eye-woods, means eyelashes, as if implying that the lashes resemble trees lined up along the eyelid.
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).
We might well inquire whether a language lacking a certain distinction (like that between eyelids and eyelashes) also lacks other distinctions (and shares the lacks with other languages).
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