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How to use eyebrow in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Eyebrow means the hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket. Example: “She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.”

Examples of eyebrow by meaning

verbTo signal with one's eyebrows.

  • Rodas watched Tinker disappear through the door before eyebrowing a question at Barrow.2015, Kathy Reichs, Bones Never Lie, page 23

More sentences with eyebrow

  • She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.From the entry stare
  • “Flambé the dessert”, ordered the Chef, “but take the dish off the heat before adding the brandy or you'll burn your eyebrows off.”From the entry flambé
  • So you're, like, the kaishao boy." His judgy eyebrow is on full blast.2023, Mae Coyiuto, Chloe and the Kaishao Boys, pages 74–75. From the entry kaishao
  • This means microblading my eyebrows, which is a semi-permanent tattoo of individual eyebrow hairs.2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 125. From the entry microblading
  • I heard a rumor there was a geas against speaking of what happened.” My eyebrows shot up.2019, Jennifer Blackstream, The Blood Trails Series, Books 1-3: Deadline, Monster, and Taken, Skeleton Key Publishing. From the entry geas
  • “I'll show you how to make funeral pies.” Eleanor raised her eyebrows.2019 July 28, Ruth Hartzler, Amish Cupcake Cozy Mystery Box Set Book 1-3: Cozy mysteries, Clean Wholesome Books, →ISBN. From the entry funeral pie
  • She would later get degrees in statistics, neuroscience and psychology, a combination that raised some eyebrows.2019 October 25, Dan Burn-Forti, “Google's got a chief decision scientist. Here's what she does”, in Wired UK, →ISSN. From the entry decision science
  • “Grander scale?” he repeated, this time allowing that wigglesome eyebrow to rise.2016 November, David Weber, chapter 6, in Shadow of Victory, Riverdale, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry wigglesome
  • Drayvon raised an eyebrow, then continued peeling the root in his hand.2015, J. D. Vaughn, The Second Guard. From the entry groundapple
  • Watching faces doles out more information than words through eyes, eyebrows, mouths shaped a certain way.2015, Audrey Ward, “Minot, North Dakota 1949: Marketing Revival”, in Hidden Biscuits: Tales of Deep South Revivals Told by Heart, Eugene…. From the entry nalesnik
  • Earlier this year, three of Obama’s "ambassadonor" picks raised eyebrows in their confirmation hearing testimony.2014 May 8, “These are the 'essential skills' needed to be an Obama ambassadonor”, in Yahoo! News. From the entry ambassadonor
  • The ophthalmic division supplies sensation from the eyebrows to the coronal suture.2013, Eric S. Hsu, Charles Argoff, Katherine E. Galluzzi, Raphael J. Leo, Andrew Dubin, “Head Pain: Trigeminal Neuralgia”, in…. From the entry corona
  • Seeing, beneath age-lushened eyebrows, the look of worry in his eyes.2011, Pete Dunne, Arctic Autumn: A Journey to Season's Edge, page 189. From the entry lushen
  • She can cut her hair short using the kitchen scissors and pluck her eyebrows away to nothing.2009, Shane Watson, How to Meet a Man After Forty and Other Midlife Dilemmas Solved. From the entry Bo Peep dress
  • He wiped milk from his eyebrows and wondered if merparents spanked their children.2007, Suzanne Selfors, “The Goldfish Sacrifice”, in To Catch a Mermaid, New York, N.Y.; Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company…. From the entry merparent
  • She lifted her perfectly plucked eyebrows in my direction as if to say, "Come closer.2006, Mary Hogan, Susanna Sees Stars, Delacorte Press, page 14. From the entry Britneyesque
  • "Yowzah," said Rick into the phone, his eyebrows shooting nearly up to his hairline.2004, James Hynes, Kings of Infinite Space, page 21. From the entry yowzah
  • “This is a nice dry piece of paulownia wood,” she said, “for drawing my eyebrows.”1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 62. From the entry paulownia
  • The doctor's eyebrows had gone synclinal from puzzlement without his awareness.1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry synclinal
  • Her dark, arched eyebrows and soft facial hair complement the membranous leaves behind her.1995 October 26, “Accent on Women's Art Latinas at two...”, in The Denver Post. From the entry facial hair
  • With the water birds Montezuma kept people whose eyebrows, hair and bodies were completely white.1995, Tony D. Triggs, Aztecs. From the entry Moctezuma
  • With the palp of a forefinger he squeezed moisture from his wiry blond eyebrows.1984, W. Boyd, Stars & Bars, i.i.11. From the entry palp
  • And the sky's eyebrow is mine that rises at the switchbladed wind.1968, Lazar Sarna, The Singsong. From the entry switchbladed
  • Not with every single soul hypoed and immunized and hormoned to his eyebrows.1956, Clifford Simak, Strangers in the Universe, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 113. From the entry hypo
  • His mouth was set and his eyebrows were drawn together in a scowl.1956, Ngaio Marsh, “The Swords Again”, in Death of a Fool, Boston, Mass.; Toronto, Ont.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, section IV…. From the entry angryish
  • His eyebrows are gone and his winkers, and he’s as red as a gobbler’s neck.1931, B. M. Bower [pseudonym; Bertha Muzzy Sinclair], “The Native Son”, in Dark Horse: A Story of the Flying U, New York, N.Y.: Triangle…. From the entry winker
  • Gaylord Ravenal elevated the right eyebrow and looked down his aristocratic nose at the capering little captain.1926, Edna Ferber, Show Boat, Doubleday, Page & Co, page 181. From the entry gaylord
  • He had the tilted eyebrows, the twinkling goaty look, and the pointed ears of a goat-Pan.1925, D. H. Lawrence, St Mawr. From the entry goaty
  • Whichever it is, you can be forgiven for arching an eyebrow at an infrastructure company being placed in overall control.2024 March 6, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Who will run our railways?”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 3. From the entry arch
  • All of this raised eyebrows at the time.2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic. From the entry raise eyebrows
  • But then computers started generating eyebrows that raised themselves.2023 June 6, Ian Bogost, “The Age of Goggles Has Arrived”, in The Atlantic. From the entry raise eyebrows
  • Besides the above anarchy symbol hairdo, Doja Cat's also really gotten people going just by shaving her head and eyebrows.2023 January 24, “Why Do People Think Doja Cat Worships the Devil?”, in Highsnobiety. From the entry humiliation ritual
  • But I did see things that aren't yet quite right, and at which I raised a quizzical eyebrow.2022 July 27, Sir Michael Holden, “In praise of Crossrail 1... and in search of Crossrail 2”, in RAIL, number 962, page 34. From the entry quizzical
  • "Hi, it's nice to see you again too, Jada," Lila Patterson said with an arch of a razorbladed eyebrow.2022, Jamie Wesley, Fake It Till You Bake It: A Novel. From the entry razorbladed
  • Eyebrows shaved to a different shape and golded.2021, Edward Elmer Smith, The Imperial Stars. From the entry gold
  • She darkens up her eyebrows with it and then runs a tube of pink lipstick over her mouth.2021 December 27, Linda MorningStar, Destiny's Wavering Road, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 164. From the entry lipstick
  • Sarah raised a provocative eyebrow and leaned forward.2020, M./Megan Milks, “The Strands”, in Foglifter, volume 4, number 2, page 11. From the entry Quincest
  • Bog standard reporting like this wouldn't raise an eyebrow anywhere.2019, Jane Gilmore, Fixed It: Violence and the representation of women in the media. From the entry raise an eyebrow
  • His eyebrows knotted and his eyes were burning red.2017, Joseph R Bristol, Human Nature: Seven Suns, page 8. From the entry multiface

Meaning of eyebrow

  1. noun The hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.
  2. noun A dormer, usually of small size, whose roof line over the upright face is typically an arched curve, turning into a reverse curve to meet the horizontal line at either end.
  3. noun A clump of waste fibres that builds up in a roller machine.

Full definition of eyebrow

Questions about eyebrow in a sentence

How do you use eyebrow in a sentence?
Eyebrow is used as a noun and verb. For example: “She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.”
What is a short sentence with eyebrow?
“All of this raised eyebrows at the time.”
What does eyebrow mean?
Eyebrow means the hair that grows over the bone ridge above the eye socket.

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