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• The sound of fingernails on a chalkboard just makes my skin crawl.From the entry make someone's skin crawl
• I caught my fingernail on the door handle.From the entry on
• She scraped the wooden plate with her fingernails.From the entry scrape
• Veiksaar screamed, and reached up to claw at her husband's face with her fingernails.2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2024. From the entry gout
• Do you find whispering, crinkling paper, tapping fingernails or scratching soothing?2014 October 15, “'Tingleheads' claim videos help ease stress”, in TODAY, NBC News. From the entry tinglehead
• She repainted them that night, bright red for the tournament, though her ring fingernails were left gold.2013 August 9, Mary Kenney, “Lonely in the L.P.G.A.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry ring fingernail
• I had to admit he had nice fingernails and a backscratch would have felt just fine.2011, Denise Giardina, The Unquiet Earth: A Novel. From the entry backscratch
• He'd also collected blood, head and pubic hair combings, and left and right fingernail clippings.2011, Peter Manso, Reasonable Doubt. From the entry combing
• He took his fingernails and he peeled all the chrome on both sides of my car off.2006 May 9, Penn Jillette, Michael Goudeau, quoting Pat, 34:52 from the start, in Penn Radio. From the entry back
• Polish with twelve drops of faery spit." 'Twas a ficklesome job, and she'd already broken two fingernails.2001, Mary E. Lyons, Knockabeg. From the entry ficklesome
• Her knees were ingrained with dirt, her toes raw with tinea, her fingernails black and broken.1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 6. From the entry tinea
• When Spade entered, Wise was buting a fingernail and staring at the window.1929, Dashiel Hammett, The Maltese Falcon, New Yock: Vintage Books (Random House, published 1992, →ISBN, page 112. From the entry 'lo
• From grotsky used tissues to fingernail clippings, there's no limit to the germ-infested materials the humble pouch could have contained.2016 July 8, Vanessa Lawrence, “Do Not Touch The Following On A Plane Unless You Want To Get Sick and Die”, in Pedestrian. From the entry grotsky
• Fingernails should be kept clean and short; nail polish should be nonacrylic to prevent fungal infections from occurring.2013, James J. Mizner, Mosby’s Pharmacy Technician Exam Review, page 167. From the entry nonacrylic
• European Union economic planners are chewing their fingernails over looming defaults in Portugal, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Greece and Spain.2011 October 17, Vic Hummert, “Movie sheds light on Wall Street protests”, in The Advertiser. From the entry PIIIGS
• I could feel my fingernails kniving into my palms.2010, James Lee Burke, The Convict And Other Stories, →ISBN. From the entry knive
• One can readily elicit knismesis in oneself (this is easily demonstrated by dragging a fingernail lightly over one’s skin).1999, Christine R. Harris, Nicholas Christenfeld, “Can a machine tickle?”, in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6(3) pp. 504-510. From the entry knismesis
• She buried her face in his shoulder and sobbed against him, wrackingly, her fingernails digging hard into his back.1970, Larry Niven, Ringworld, page 121. From the entry wrackingly
• We had to be dressed fit to kill every morning, our fingernails absolutely perfect, our faces made up.1967, Trudy Baker, Rachel Jones, Donald Bain (uncredited), Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, New…. From the entry fit to kill
• "You will have to snip both front and back and then pick out your "snippage" with your fingernails."1964, Hope Hanley, NEELEPOINT - Page 143. From the entry snippage
• It’s simple enough: Each partner must rip out a fingernail, wait a few minutes for a microwavelike contraption to inspect it, and voilà!2023 November 7, Shirley Li, “It’s a Miracle Anyone Stays in Love”, in The Atlantic. From the entry microwavelike
• Another person thought the woman potentially left her ring fingernail long without getting it filled in because the other nails appear more normal.2019 June 12, Danielle Zoellner, “'It looks like the nail is running away!' Bride-to-be proudly shares a photo of her huge engagement ring…. From the entry ring fingernail
• Reluctantly Raj used his fingernail to prise away the bogie he had long since sneezed up there and popped it in his mouth.2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN. From the entry bogie
• I just remember seeing their dirty little fingernails and their dirty faces and the way they're running around, playing in the courthouse.2002 February 1, Rick Lyman, quoting Sissy Spacek, “WATCHING MOVIES WITH/Sissy Spacek; In the Arms Of Memory”, in The New York Times, New…. From the entry little fingernail
• With splitting fingernails he scratched up various soils from his long-abandoned bridal bed, plus shirt-pocketsful of hardness-eight gravel to serve as splattergun projectiles.1999, Tom Bradley, Kara-Kun, Flip-Kun, →ISBN, page 267. From the entry splattergun
• Judging from his expression, so did Old Sam, although he wouldn't have admitted it unless his fingernails were being ripped out by redhot pincers.1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry redhot
• To scratch, with claws or fingernails.[1996–2020, Ted Duckworth, “scram”, in A Dictionary of Slang, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2013. From the entry scram
• It took him more than a thousand tries to properly fit together the pieces—many tinier than your little fingernail—of the sky-colored jug.1991 October 10, “Piecing Together Shards of History”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN…. From the entry little fingernail
• Today her short fingernails are tinged yellow from turmeric, on the back of her wrist a dot of awaze, the red pepper paste gleaming like fresh blood.2019, Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King, Canongate Books (2020), page 21. From the entry awaze
• The two feds played good cop-bad cop as the tall fed talked in a warm, low-key voice and the short one like fingernails on a chalkboard.2018, Andrew Vincent Metalhorn, Eminence of Evil, iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry good cop-bad cop
• Thanks to Global Positioning Systems we can see that Europe and North America are parting at about the speed a fingernail grows—roughly two yards in a human lifetime.2005, Bill Bryson, A short history of nearly everything. From the entry brevity
• He noticed Ada's trick of hiding her fingernails by fisting her hand or stretching it with the palm turned upward when helping herself to a biscuit.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 29. From the entry fist
• "The British run torture centers in Cyprus where they beat their prisoners, inject them with truth serums, extract their teeth and fingernails," cried Athens' Voice of the Fatherland radio.1956 February 13, “Cyprus: Heat & Haggling”, in Time. From the entry truth serum
• Can’t you do something about the catsuppy lips and slaughter house fingernails of the otherwise attractive young ladies who are photographed for your Sunday picture section?1942 June 21, Victor Elving, “[Voice of the People] Makeup”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CI, number 152, Chicago, Ill., published 26…. From the entry catsuppy

Meaning of fingernail

1. noun The hard, flat translucent covering near the tip of a human finger, useful for scratching and fine manipulation.

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How do you use fingernail in a sentence?

Fingernail is used as a noun. For example: “The sound of fingernails on a chalkboard just makes my skin crawl.”

What is a short sentence with fingernail?

“To scratch, with claws or fingernails.”

What does fingernail mean?

Fingernail means the hard, flat translucent covering near the tip of a human finger, useful for scratching and fine manipulation.