Fingernails is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Fingernails meaning
plural of fingernail
Using Fingernails
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of fingernail
- In the example corpus, fingernails often appears in combinations such as: their fingernails, fingernails and, his fingernails.
Context around Fingernails
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 10 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fingernails
- In this selection, "fingernails" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, painted, collected, sharp and gathered stand out and add context to how "fingernails" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and painted fingernails and clean my fingernails and couldn. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fingernails" sits close to words such as achievers, acton and aether, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fingernails
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Kendy did not have any … DNA under her fingernails. (9 words)
Said tooth was later picked up by a person with red fingernails. (12 words)
Bend your elbows and look carefully at your forearms, underarms, fingernails, and palms. (13 words)
Brazilians, on the other hand, are more likely to blame sleep paralysis on a demon called Pisadeira, a witch-like creature with sharp fingernails that walks on people's stomachs when they are sleeping on their backs. (37 words)
In the clip, Nkechi used her long fingernails to tap the orange Hermes box before she opened it to reveal a folded Hermes paper bag and another linen dust bag with the Hermes logo printed on it. (37 words)
Then been left wondering what to do with them after I'd used the toothpick to clean my fingernails and couldn't find any use for tweezers in the confines of a Toyota station wagon. (35 words)
How did a key component of America’s Labor Party come to denigrate all those formerly celebrated folks who still work with their hands and have dirt under their fingernails? (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Artist Crispin Valdez collected fingernails for two years to use it for a special project– a portrait of actor Coco Martin.
Brazilians, on the other hand, are more likely to blame sleep paralysis on a demon called Pisadeira, a witch-like creature with sharp fingernails that walks on people's stomachs when they are sleeping on their backs.
Her hands were adorned with three rings well complemented by her light-manicured fingernails.
How did a key component of America’s Labor Party come to denigrate all those formerly celebrated folks who still work with their hands and have dirt under their fingernails?
In 2008, Redmond, from Holladay, was registered by the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest fingernails on both hands — at 28 feet, 4.5 inches.
It also matched cellular material found under Ms Glennon’s fingernails, gathered during a violent struggle shortly before her death.
It is obvious that Casas is a colorful guy (as saw just last week when he went viral for his painted fingernails and toenails).
Then been left wondering what to do with them after I'd used the toothpick to clean my fingernails and couldn't find any use for tweezers in the confines of a Toyota station wagon.
The songwriter who came up as a rapper in Cleveland by the name of transitioned more recently to the world of pop-punk, rocking a pink guitar and painted fingernails.
Bend your elbows and look carefully at your forearms, underarms, fingernails, and palms.
He’d like to get his fingernails in their flesh and let them know who the elected leaders of their country were.
In the clip, Nkechi used her long fingernails to tap the orange Hermes box before she opened it to reveal a folded Hermes paper bag and another linen dust bag with the Hermes logo printed on it.
Kendy did not have any … DNA under her fingernails.
Like the boss who regularly cut his fingernails with a huge pair of scissors during meetings with his team.
Said tooth was later picked up by a person with red fingernails.
Skin discolouration - including fingernails - along with lips, tongue and skin - can go blue when there is a low level or lack of oxygen circulating in your red blood cells.
According to the complaint, evidence against Weaver — who turns 15 in two months — includes DNA recovered from Tessa's fingernails.
And, in fact, none of the entries in what would become a franchise (that actually started with Michael Mann’s 1986 thriller ) ever managed to work their way under viewers’ fingernails with such tenacity.
And when Downie's legendary predecessor Ben Bradlee was tired of talking to someone, he would start clipping his fingernails to signal the end of the meeting.
Dr Jonathan Whitaker is the scientist who found a male DNA profile from the microscopic DNA fragments found under Ciara Glennon’s fingernails.
Common combinations with fingernails
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- their fingernails 10×
- fingernails and 8×
- his fingernails 5×
- my fingernails 4×
- her fingernails 4×
- your fingernails 4×
- fingernails on 3×
- painted fingernails 3×
- long fingernails 3×
- fingernails to 3×