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How to use fingernail in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word fingernail? Here are some examples.

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By the time it registered in my mind I was tracing the ugly teal tiles with my fingernail.
A few days ago I hurt the middle finger of my right hand, and it started swelling slightly around the fingernail.
Take the burrs off the cuts with a pocket knife or sandpaper or fingernail file.
She was no longer biting her fingernail, but fidgeting with the gold cross on a chain around her neck.
In the metric mile, Stockbauer missed by a fingernail becoming the second woman, behind Janet Evans, ever to crack the 16-minute barrier.
For this case, some 93 exhibits were collected, including clothes, fingernail clippings and scrapings and hair.
She chewed grimly on the fingernail of her little pinkie, narrowing her eyebrows in frustration.
Pitch is determined by sliding the fingernail against the string rather than pressing it against a fingerboard.
Use the back of your fingernail on your index finger to part and lift a new section of hair to the left of the braid.
One of Renee's eyebrows twitched and she began to tap a solitary fingernail onto the table.
I sat at the kitchen table, scraping off some dried up stuff on the glass surface with my fingernail.
Flick out the stinger by lifting it with a fingernail or scrape it off using the edge of a dull knife.
Try removing as much of the label or tape as possible with your fingernail or the dull edge of a knife.
If your hands are often wet, you are more likely to get fungal fingernail infections.
Lore could hear the scrape of his fingernail against his tooth, and her skin crawled.
The pigeons on the ledge outside scrabbled from side to side, as Catherine tapped at the glass with a fingernail.
Gold is soft enough to scratch with a fingernail, and the most malleable of metals.
I was so angry as I left the hospital that I could barely see the numbers on my cell phone as my fingernail jabbed at it.
I examined a small callous on the middle finger of my left hand, right underneath my fingernail.
I removed my hand from my mouth when I realized I had chewed my fingernail down to the bleeding quick.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Almost every caruncle present after 50 days could be flicked off easily with a probe or fingernail.
She had been having trouble with her pen point and was picking at it with her fingernail.
A moment later be cursed himself, and felt the bracelet with his fingernail.
Hellman punctured the seal with his fingernail and set the bottle on the floor.
He examined the handwork on the hilt, then snapped a fingernail against the blade.
He yanked off the cover, losing most of a fingernail in the process, and removed the fuse.
John caught the tip of the needle with his fingernail and bent it back again.
She traced a line or two with her fingernail, and dropped my hand to the walnut.
Nailene's Total Match fingernail and toenail kits are for a co-ordinated polished look for fingers and toes.
Frey caught it and flicked a safety match with his fingernail.
A black pellet the size of his fingernail dropped into his palm.
He nodded toward the ape-man, while with his own fingernail he wrote.
This includes scraping or flicking off the stinger with something like a credit card, a fingernail, or a knife.
Stimulate, ideally with an acupuncture needle, but a hatpin, ballpoint pen, fingernail, or any sharp object will bring them back.
Unfortunately, most of Florida's salterns are doomed by global warming, which, at its present rate, raises the sea level about twice the thickness of a fingernail every year.
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