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How to use toenail in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Toenail means the thin, horny, transparent plate covering the upper surface of the end of a toe. Example: “Ingrowth is a common problem with toenails.”

More sentences with toenail

  • Ingrowth is a common problem with toenails.From the entry ingrowth
  • Our car broke down and we didn't have any tools but Jim MacGyvered it with some toenail clippers and we were able to limp to the service station.From the entry macgyver
  • I noticed inflammation at the base of my left big toenail and started daily foot soaking.2024 November 9, Jacqueline LeKachman, “How I live with ingrown toenails: First, by avoiding pedicures”, in The Washington Post…. From the entry big toenail
  • The problem is trauma to the nail, usually the great toenail.2017 October 15, Brian Moloney, “Called to Care: What are infected, ingrown toenails?”, in South Bend Tribune, 145th year, number 220…. From the entry great toenail
  • There is onychodystrophy suggestive of onychomycosis affecting four of his nine toenails.2011, Rachael Morris-Jones, Ann-Marie Powell, Emma Benton, 100 Cases in Dermatology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 113. From the entry onychodystrophy
  • I grasped the big toenail, lined up the clipper and pressed the blades together.2009 September 28, Anna B. Reisman, “Not her job – not that it matters”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times…. From the entry big toenail
  • She had surgery in December to remove her large toenails to help with repeated ingrown nails and then developed an infection.2024 January 22, Kelly Byer, “Doctor leaves Canton office without notice […]”, in Akron Beacon Journal, volume 185, number 244, Akron…. From the entry large toenail
  • Sam, 35, had a dark discoloration on his right great toenail that didn’t go away after six months.2022 May 19, Susan Hammerling-Hodgers, “Get your skin checked regularly, it might just save your life”, in Florida Today, volume 57…. From the entry great toenail
  • The actress Naomi Watts posted on Instagram an image of her feet, with seashells positioned to mimic overgrown toenails.2020 June 23, Lauren Mechling, “Goodbye, Pedicures. Hello, Peels.”, in The New York Times. From the entry despo
  • That a zebra’s hoof is just a large toenail?2018 December 6, “This creature-filled anthology is a great Christmas present for kids”, in The Independent, London: Independent News &…. From the entry large toenail
  • He smiled as her yellow nailpolished toenails blinked in and out from under the hem of her gown.2003, Sallie Lowenstein, “The Jacks”, in Sender Unknown, Kensington, Md.: Lion Stone Books, →ISBN, page 213. From the entry nailpolished
  • I listened with my hand on the doorknob, uneager to catch Simone Delage in the act of clipping her toenails.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 300. From the entry uneager
  • She paints her toenails with glitterful nail polish.1993, Lindsey Collen, The Rape of Sita, Heinemann, published 1995, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry glitterful
  • I was cleaning the gunk from under my toenails and was overcome by the urge to scream FAKE NEWS while one-throating a cheeseburger in bed.2018 December 6, witchface13, Twitter, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2022. From the entry one-throat
  • The female chigoe flea burrows into the skin, often under the toenails or between the toes, where she sucks blood and lays her eggs.2002, Patrick R. Murray, chapter I, in Medical Microbiology, page 778. From the entry chigoe flea
  • Trudeau continued in an overly cheerful voice, “lab technicians are whipping up aromatherapy to cure everything from backne to ingrown toenails with little more than a sniff!2013, Sophie Bell, The Ultra Violets, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry bacne
  • Other treatments with carbon dioxide laser are onychoplasty and matrixectomy for the treatment of ingrown toenails and laser surgical removal of the bone spurs by a bone-shaving technique.2006, Robert Splinter, Brett A. Hooper, An Introduction to Biomedical Optics, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 416. From the entry matrixectomy
  • With his eyes closed, Al could hear her drop the pinecone rhythmically on the tile, chock chock chock chock, the bass, her little toenails clicking a tune around it.2000 April 6, Jane Smiley, “Jack Russell”, in Horse Heaven, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 13. From the entry chock
  • He displayed a forefinger nail which had been slit the entire length, leaving a scar, and said that one of his large toenails had undergone similar treatment.1925 January 4, “[Arnold Henry Savage] Landor Lived to Tell of Tortures in Tibet […]”, in The New York Times (section 8), volume LXXIV…. From the entry forefinger nail

Meaning of toenail

  1. noun The thin, horny, transparent plate covering the upper surface of the end of a toe.
  2. verb To fasten two pieces of lumber together by applying nails or screws into both boards at an angle.

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Questions about toenail in a sentence

How do you use toenail in a sentence?
Toenail is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Ingrowth is a common problem with toenails.”
What is a short sentence with toenail?
“Ingrowth is a common problem with toenails.”
What does toenail mean?
Toenail means the thin, horny, transparent plate covering the upper surface of the end of a toe.

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