Hangnail is an English word with synonyms like skin or cutis. Below you'll find 3 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hangnail meaning
- A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.
- A pointed upper corner of the toenail (often created by improperly trimming by rounding the corner) that, as the nail grows, presses into the flesh or protrudes so that it may catch (“hang”) on stockings or shoes.
Using Hangnail
- The main meaning on this page is: A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail. | A pointed upper corner of the toenail (often created by improperly trimming by rounding the corner) that, as the nail grows, presses into the flesh or protrudes so that it may catch (“hang”) on stockings or shoes.
- Useful related words include: agnail, skin, tegument, cutis.
- In the example corpus, hangnail often appears in combinations such as: hangnail is.
Context around Hangnail
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hangnail
- In this selection, "hangnail" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, anything and durst stand out and add context to how "hangnail" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include from anything hangnail or stub and robert durst hangnail is perhaps. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hangnail" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hangnail
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That hangnail is on the finger I flip people off with. (11 words)
If i have pain from anything hangnail or stub my toe i can just pass out. (16 words)
The scabrous one-pager “Future Presidents” features nine putrid possibilities for the country’s highest office, now that the bar has been lowered; “Infected Robert Durst Hangnail” is perhaps the only one that can be printed here. (37 words)
The scabrous one-pager “Future Presidents” features nine putrid possibilities for the country’s highest office, now that the bar has been lowered; “Infected Robert Durst Hangnail” is perhaps the only one that can be printed here. (37 words)
If i have pain from anything hangnail or stub my toe i can just pass out. (16 words)
That hangnail is on the finger I flip people off with. (11 words)
Example sentences (3)
If i have pain from anything hangnail or stub my toe i can just pass out.
The scabrous one-pager “Future Presidents” features nine putrid possibilities for the country’s highest office, now that the bar has been lowered; “Infected Robert Durst Hangnail” is perhaps the only one that can be printed here.
That hangnail is on the finger I flip people off with.
Common combinations with hangnail
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hangnail is 2×