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How to use forehead in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Forehead means the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline. Example: “The child’s forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.”

More sentences with forehead

  • The child’s forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.From the entry burn
  • When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.From the entry furrow
  • Horner's syndrome consists of typically unilateral miosis and eyelid ptosis, and absent forehead sweating.From the entry miosis
  • She felt the child's forehead and discovered that he was burning up!From the entry burn up
  • You might have a fever, your forehead is burning.From the entry burn
  • He had a conspicuous lump on his forehead.From the entry conspicuous
  • I have no idea why he's wearing a ushanka in triple digit heat; bro's forehead must be drenched in sweat.From the entry ushanka
  • Her fringe was damp and uncrimped and sticking, like seaweed straggling on a rock, to her forehead.2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 112. From the entry uncrimped
  • A hard, burning button erupted on my forehead, an itchy hive.2021, Alexander Lobrano, My Place at the Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris, Rux Martin/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page…. From the entry hive
  • She put her hand to her forehead to see if she'd come down with fever.2017, Clarice Lispector, “Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady”, in Complete Stories. From the entry fantasticize
  • With his forefinger, he curled one of the ringlets that petaled against Malou's forehead.2014, Tory Cates, Different Dreams, page 169. From the entry petal
  • Sweat trickled down his forehead, steaming up his round Harry Potter glasses.2014, Julie Garwood, Fast Track, page 290. From the entry Harry Potter glasses
  • A really derpy, mugly caveman, with a sloping forehead, a drooling mouth and Dwayne's buzz cut.2013 April 25, Katie Hayoz, Untethered, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry derpy
  • Her heart constricted when she saw thick blood oozing from a wide gash in his forehead.2011, Karen Mahoney, The Iron Witch, Flux, →ISBN, page 278. From the entry ooze
  • Something about the wrinkle in your forehead tells me there's a fit about to get thrown.2003, Patterson Hood, Heathens. From the entry throw a fit
  • No, not a pink-faced, dripping sweat; nevertheless, a little dewy under the arms and around your forehead.2001, Karon Karter, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Pilates Method, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry break a sweat
  • The veil on her pillbox hat covers her forehead and comes down right to the eyes.1998, Kenneth J. Weber, Five-minute Mysteries Reader, →ISBN, page 190. From the entry suitjacket
  • At the end of a long drawn-out ceremony, the purohit put a tilak on his forehead.1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 42. From the entry purohit
  • The endoscopic forehead lift may be performed separately or in conjunction with a necklift or composite facelift.1996, Tina S. Alster, David B. Apfelberg, editors, Cosmetic Laser Surgery, Wiley-Liss, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry necklift
  • Sister Raymond put a wet cloth on her forehead, dribbled some water across her mouth.1995, Thomas Keneally, A river town. From the entry mumpy
  • It’ll be perfect to cover up those dreadfully unsightly scars,’ said Unctuous pointing at Guthry’s forehead.1995, Andrew Harman, “Of Blueprints and Hair-nets”, in Fahrenheit 666, London: Legend Books, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry hair-net
  • Her mouth hung slightly open and water droplets bubbled her forehead, like oversized sweat.1994, Jonathan Kellerman, Bad Love, page 57. From the entry bubble
  • The Lady Tofaa also had a red measle of paint on her forehead between her eyes.1984, Gary Jennings, The Journeyer, page 671. From the entry measles
  • Well why then, when I returned, there wasn't a trace of that wound on his forehead.1967, Star Trek, The Alternative Factor, season 1, episode 27, DeForest Kelley (actor). From the entry ditto
  • Doug came up with a half-guilty smile and washboarded his forehead at her.1967, James Jones, Go to the Widow-Maker, page 515. From the entry washboard
  • Fieldmarks are its color, its forehead and a very much back-curving dorsal fin.1967, Eleanore Devine and Martha Clark, The Dolphin Smile: Twenty-nine Centuries of Dolphin Lore, Macmillan, page 240. From the entry fieldmark
  • As you walk through the front door, they stamp "sucker" on your forehead.1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer. From the entry sucker
  • Evan pushed the twist of hair off his forehead and regarded the shadow.1965, {unattributed}, The Prairie Schooner - Volume 25 - Page 90. From the entry scaffoldy
  • When he felt the young man's forehead, it was very hot and his eyes were feverishly bright.1963, Stephen Warren Meader, The Muddy Road to Glory, page 110. From the entry aiger
  • Then the cop brought his club down and caught the steward on the forehead.1952, Robert V. Williams, The Hard Way, page 45. From the entry sonova
  • “The right hon. gentleman” squinked his eyes until his monocle dented cheek and forehead bones.1944, Jack Jones, The Man David: An Imaginative Presentation, Based on Fact, of the Life of David LLoyd George from 1880 to 1914, page 99. From the entry squink
  • Suddenly he went ricketing down the street, beads of gin breaking out profusely on his forehead.a. 1940, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Homes of the Stars. From the entry ricket
  • The hammer-handle had struck slantingly across my forehead, and my head ached from the blow.1905, Meredith Nicholson, The House of a Thousand Candles. From the entry slantingly
  • Demi-chanfron, with central spike in the middle of the forehead, hinged crinière at the top.1901, Wallace Collection (London, England), Sir Guy Francis Laking, Catalogue of the European Armour and Arms in the Wallace Collection at…. From the entry mainfaire
  • To answer that, we need to dive forehead first into everybody’s favorite part of any analysis: arcane occupation definitions!2025 March 14, Andrew Van Dam, “Department of Data: More than a quarter of computer-programming jobs just vanished. What happened?…. From the entry developer
  • She serves the prasad, small cone-shaped bright-yellow modaks that they eat whole after touching to their foreheads to absorb god's blessing.2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 181. From the entry modak
  • A lock of hair spilled over her forehead.2020, Keith Hill, The Reunion, Conneaut Lake, Pa.: Page Publishing, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry fer instance
  • Fukuyama is short with large ears and a wide, eggish forehead which tapers down to a tight, pointy chin.2020 October 26, Brent Crane, “Woodworking with Francis Fukuyama”, in The Economist, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived…. From the entry eggish
  • Her forehead, lashed deep with lines, marked her fifty-six years.2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin, Part 1, p. 16. From the entry mark
  • Her arms around him, his around hers, foreheads touching, eyes closed, they dream their dreamy dreams of rainbow unicorns and butteries.2018, Stefan Petrucha, Deadpool: Paws. From the entry rainbow unicorns

Meaning of forehead

  1. noun The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
  2. noun Confidence; audacity; impudence.
  3. noun The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.

Full definition of forehead

Questions about forehead in a sentence

How do you use forehead in a sentence?
Forehead is used as a noun. For example: “The child’s forehead was burning with fever. Her cheeks burned with shame.”
What is a short sentence with forehead?
“A lock of hair spilled over her forehead.”
What does forehead mean?
Forehead means the part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: forehead (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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