Example sentences for: eyelid

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

  • eyebrow eyelid eyelash

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

  • For eyelid, several Scandinavian languages have words ending with the element lok , etc. (lock, cover, lid), for example, Swedish ögonlock , Danish øjenlåg , Norwegian øyelokk , Faroese eygnalok .

  • 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 ).

  • Latin had terms for eyebrow and eyelid that were the sources of the French ones (Lat supercilium and palebra ), but eyelash evidently caused trouble.


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