Example sentences for: eyelids

How can you use “eyelids” 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.

  • One of the Clubbers, Eric Alterman, had called Buckley's book "a lumbering, themeless pudding of a novel that forces one's eyelids shut like an invisible vise."

  • Sonograms allow doctors to estimate the fetus's weight, which correlates with the lungs' development, and to look for signs--such as the development of functioning eyelids and creases in the skin--that coincide with the onset of a functioning respiratory system.

  • 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.

  • But pent-house here refers to eyelids, not to a lavish apartment.


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