Explore Cuticle through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like skin or cutis. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Cuticle meaning
- The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
- The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- Dead or cornified epidermis.
Using Cuticle
- The main meaning on this page is: The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis. | The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail. | Dead or cornified epidermis.
- Useful related words include: skin, tegument, cutis, epidermis.
- In the example corpus, cuticle often appears in combinations such as: the cuticle, cuticle and, old cuticle.
Context around Cuticle
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 12 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cuticle
- In this selection, "cuticle" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hair, carry, old, oil, ecdysis and picker stand out and add context to how "cuticle" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a waxy cuticle in areas and am a cuticle picker one. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cuticle" sits close to words such as acolytes, acv and afolabi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cuticle
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The hair cuticle layers are neither tightly compacted nor excessively raised. (11 words)
CUTICLE – The beginning of this word is found in the bottom row. (12 words)
Blues are typically created by microstructures in the cuticle that reflect blue light. (13 words)
Since you eat both of those items with your hands, we went through an embarrassing amount of napkins, but it fit the atmosphere, and besides, doesn’t honey chive butter have the same benefits on your fingertips as cuticle oil? (40 words)
Crocus flowers and leaves are protected from frost by a waxy cuticle; in areas where snow and frost occasionally occur in the early spring, it is not uncommon to see early flowering crocuses blooming through a light late snowfall. (39 words)
In the 1990s, the picture of this mutualism was expanded to include another partner: an actinobacteria, Pseudonocardia, which lives on the ants' cuticle—their hard exoskeleton—where its cultures are fed by secretions of subcuticular glands. (36 words)
Since you eat both of those items with your hands, we went through an embarrassing amount of napkins, but it fit the atmosphere, and besides, doesn’t honey chive butter have the same benefits on your fingertips as cuticle oil? (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
Carry cuticle oil: Another way to make your pedicure last is to carry a cuticle oil and keep your feet soft, moisturized and prevent the polish from chipping.
The process of moulting in insects begins with the separation of the cuticle from the underlying epidermal cells (apolysis) and ends with the shedding of the old cuticle (ecdysis).
Although this wasn't exactly one of my goals when trying nail slugging, I am a cuticle picker — one of my nervous habits.
The hair cuticle layers are neither tightly compacted nor excessively raised.
These hair fibers are each composed of three distinct regions: the cuticle, and the outermost area consisting of lamellar layers of structural tissue.
A DIY avocado hair mask, applied to damp hair, can do wonders to lock in moisture at the level of the hair cuticle and along the hair strands.
CUTICLE – The beginning of this word is found in the bottom row.
Don’t forget to lather your cuticles in cuticle oil after removing all your nail polish.
In the 1990s, the picture of this mutualism was expanded to include another partner: an actinobacteria, Pseudonocardia, which lives on the ants' cuticle—their hard exoskeleton—where its cultures are fed by secretions of subcuticular glands.
It opens up the cuticle, so when we're doing a chemical or condition treatment, it will further penetrate and get inside that hair strand".
Daniel Myers was arrested after authorities linked his DNA to a trace amount found under Bogle's cuticle.
You’ll need the right tools, such as nail clippers, cuticle trimmers, nail files, and a buffer.
Drawn with a brush or stick on the nail and cuticle of the forefinger of the left hand, it is designed to last for weeks, until a new nail grows.
Since you eat both of those items with your hands, we went through an embarrassing amount of napkins, but it fit the atmosphere, and besides, doesn’t honey chive butter have the same benefits on your fingertips as cuticle oil?
The Tinea Pedis we talked about earlier can affect the fingernails, when a nail cutter and other instrument to remove cuticle are contaminated by the fungus in the toes or toenails of people with the infection.
Blues are typically created by microstructures in the cuticle that reflect blue light.
Chordotonal organs, unlike campaniform sensilla, exist beneath the cuticle and typically respond to stretch as opposed to distortion or bending.
Crocus flowers and leaves are protected from frost by a waxy cuticle; in areas where snow and frost occasionally occur in the early spring, it is not uncommon to see early flowering crocuses blooming through a light late snowfall.
Early cuticle may not have had pores but did not cover the entire plant surface, so that gas exchange could continue.
Endopterygotes have more alternatives to moulting, such as expansion of the cuticle and collapse of air sacs to allow growth of internal organs.
Common combinations with cuticle
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: