Examples of fingernail in a Sentence
I trimmed and filed my fingernails.
He had dirt under his fingernails.
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Foreign Objects Foreign objects, such as dust, fingernails, pollen, or eyelashes, can scratch or become lodged in your eye during normal activities.
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Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2025
From nearly 100,000 sports cards to collections of fingernail clippings, brewery coasters, oil lamps, gnomes, porcelain pigs, Elvis Presley or Princess Diana memorabilia and even taxidermy displays of tigers, the list was long.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
Some artifacts — cufflinks, coins, jewelry, a single wooden die — are barely the size of a fingernail.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 6 July 2025
The push to clear the two men of wrongdoing came after a reinvestigation determined that DNA recovered from Reid’s fingernails didn’t belong to Collins or Boles.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 10 July 2025
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Anna Giorgi, Verywell Health, 1 Aug. 2025
From nearly 100,000 sports cards to collections of fingernail clippings, brewery coasters, oil lamps, gnomes, porcelain pigs, Elvis Presley or Princess Diana memorabilia and even taxidermy displays of tigers, the list was long.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 July 2025
Some artifacts — cufflinks, coins, jewelry, a single wooden die — are barely the size of a fingernail.
—Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 6 July 2025
The push to clear the two men of wrongdoing came after a reinvestigation determined that DNA recovered from Reid’s fingernails didn’t belong to Collins or Boles.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 10 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for fingernail
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“Fingernail.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fingernail. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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fingernail
noun
fin·ger·nail
ˈfiŋ-gər-ˌnāl 
ˌfiŋ-gər-ˈnā(ə)l
: the nail of a finger
Medical Definition
fingernail
noun
fin·ger·nail
ˈfiŋ-gər-ˌnāl, ˌfiŋ-gər-ˈnā(ə)l
: the nail of a finger
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