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• Horner's syndrome consists of typically unilateral miosis and eyelid ptosis, and absent forehead sweating.From the entry miosis
• He found his eyelid flutters annoying enough to see a doctor about them.From the entry flutter
• Eublepharid geckos lack adhesive toepads and, unlike other geckos, have movable eyelids.From the entry toepad
• Whenever he has a pair of aces, his eyelids twitch.From the entry whenever
• Levator disinsertion leads to a ptotic eyelid.From the entry ptotic
• When laptop computers first came out they were something of a novelty. These days, nobody bats an eyelid.From the entry bat an eyelid
• Blinked again, a slow narrowing and release of eyelids, an entirely evaluatory expression.2021, Arkady Martine, A Desolation Called Peace, Tor, page 59. From the entry evaluatory
• He could wallop two dozen large rossogollas in one sitting without batting an eyelid.2018, Monila De, Unforgettable Kalimpong. From the entry rossogolla
• Jess's eyelids had slid down over those icy-blue eyes, almost closed, almost crooked, like mispulled blinds.2018, Glen Hirshberg, Nothing to Devour: Motherless Children #3. From the entry mispull
• “Yuck Fou,” I slurred, my eyelids drooping as the room began to spin.2018, Ian Mark, Love from Amanda to Zoey, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry yuck fou
• “About forty dollars between us,” John lied, without blinking an eyelid.2017, Valerie Pixley, Monkeys in my Garden, →ISBN. From the entry without blinking an eyelid
• He grunted and murmured, until his face calmed, the eyelids smoothing into slumber, the brows unfurrowing.2009 June 28, David Gates, “The Postmodern Me”, in New York Times. From the entry unfurrow
• The eyelids frozen open, the wide cataracted eyes, the loose lips, the dark pink tunnel of throat.2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 155. From the entry cataracted
• Arios neat-handedly put finishing touches on taping up the unconscious engineer's hands, mouth, and eyelids while Mr.2000, Barbara Hambly, Crossroad, →ISBN. From the entry neat-handedly
• The sun beats on his eyelids; inside them a paramecium revolves.1983, Robert Drewe, The Bodysurfers, Penguin 2009, page 144. From the entry paramecium
• Even without mobilization of the bone, the median eyelid angle can be deplaced in the nasal direction.1982, Sherrell J. Aston, Albert Hornblass, Murray A. Meltzer, et al., editors, Third International Symposium of Plastic and Reconstructive…. From the entry curve
• This retropalpebral canal exists only during the short phase of complete eyelid closure.1971, Everett R. Veirs, editor, The Lacrimal System: Proceedings, page 99. From the entry retropalpebral
• A forty-thousand-ton steamer sweeping grandly past the Battery brought never a flicker to his eyelids.1922 November, A.E. Dingle, “A Bride from the Sea: A Complete Novelette—The Strange Cruise of the Seafarer and Her Crew of a Sailor, a…. From the entry bovinely
• Val walked out behind his mother, chin squared, eyelids drooped, doing his level best to despise everybody.1920, John Galsworthy, “Dartie versus Dartie”, in In Chancery (The Forsyte Saga; 2), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part II, page 186. From the entry level best
• Amazed though I was that she was au courant, I gave her the answer without batting an eyelid.2017, Bertil Dunér, Little Counsellor, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry without batting an eyelid
• His eyelids fluttered, their underlying gaze balleting without clarity.2016, Jacob Russell Dring, Endless the Chase. From the entry ballet
• Twenty minutes later, he let his eyelids split a quarter open and noticed a staircase going up to the third floor.2016, Drew Magary, The Hike: A Novel, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry troll job
• Eyelid specific treatments for hidrocystomas have included carbon dioxide vaporization, electrosurgery, hyfrecation, botulinum toxin, and intralesional tricholoroacetic acid injection.2015 January 13, Lucieni B. Ferraz et al., “Three Adult Cases of Orbital Hidrocystoma Presenting with Blepharoptosis”, in Journal of…. From the entry hyfrecation
• Fingers pinched my eyelashes and lifted one eyelid.2014, Victoria Wessex, Shipwrecked with the Billionaire Rock Star. From the entry ook
• His eyes have been closed to a squink, seeing only a blurred shapeless bright light under his eyelids.2014, Mark Richard Luther, Richard Tarbox, page 30. From the entry squink
• Without your eyelid, you could not palpebrate.2013, Faith Hickman Brynie, 101 Questions about Muscles, 2nd Edition, page 58. From the entry palpebrate
• My head spins like the vagitated gears of a drunken kaleidoscope, and my eyelids droop like the shade.2008, Davis Schneiderman, Dis: (or, The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure), Buffalo, N.Y.: BlazeVOX Books, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry vagitate
• The tall girl is the shimmeriest, lips painted the color of the inside of an oyster shell, eyelids swirled in mother-of-pearl.2007, Sunshine O’Donnell, “How much money do you make?”, in Open Me: A Novel, San Francisco, Calif.: MacAdam Cage, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry shimmery
• But here in a land whose resources and infrastructure cannot sustain such frivolity, the barber doesn't even bat an eyelid.2006, Pete Takeda, An Eye at the Top of the World, page 116. From the entry bat an eyelid
• An area of scleral loss in a patient with en coup de sabre or linear scleroderma involving the face, including eyelids.2002, Charles Stephen Foster, Albert T. Vitale, Diagnosis and Treatment of Uveitis, W.B. Saunders Company, →ISBN. From the entry en coup de sabre
• His hands fumbled, and his eyelids suddenly felt as if someone had weighed them down with death pennies.2002, Elizabeth Chadwick, The Winter Mantle, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 503. From the entry death penny
• A blodge of blue on the eyelids, a blodge of black on the eyelashes, white face and red mouth.1995, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, A Well-Painted Passion, page 110. From the entry blodge
• He didn't duck but his eyelids blinked.1974, Jeannie Sakol, New Year's Eve: A Novel, page 304. From the entry two for flinching
• What?” “Don't mention that rat's name in my presence,” she said, and pushed off, the eyelids still weary.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry frigidaire
• On a bench near the wall, Ion Hurdubet and Petrea Nucu were waiting for their wives: Ion's eyelids were blinkling wearily.1955, Remus Luca, Ana Nucu. From the entry blinkle
• Her eyelids drooped as though the lashes weighed intolerably; with the tip of her tongue she wettened her very red lips.1951, Truman Capote, The Grass Harp, Vintage Books, published 2012, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry wetten
• Close-up of two rats gnawing at a mutton bone, of the flies on the purulent eyelids of a small girl.1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC. From the entry purulent
• There was a flutter of eyelids as she sat down beside Warrington and began to chatter to him in Italian.1913, Parrot & Co, Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 159. From the entry flutter
• The part of the eyelid that is the location of the lacrimal caruncle, which produces rheum or "sleep," the gritty substance often present when awakening.2019, Jahangir Moini, Anatomy and Physiology for Health Professionals, Jones & Bartlett Learning, page 780, entry "Medial canthus". From the entry sleep

Meaning of eyelid

1. noun A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.

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Questions about eyelid in a sentence

How do you use eyelid in a sentence?

Eyelid is used as a noun. For example: “Horner's syndrome consists of typically unilateral miosis and eyelid ptosis, and absent forehead sweating.”

What is a short sentence with eyelid?

“He didn't duck but his eyelids blinked.”

What does eyelid mean?

Eyelid means a thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.