How to Use eye socket in a Sentence

eye socket

noun
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  • Move all the way to the top of your head, but avoid your eye socket area.
    — Melanie Simon, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The team also measured the ring of bones that make up the eye socket.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 6 May 2021
  • The face is connected to the skull at three points: The ear canals, the eye sockets and the muzzle.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 8 Feb. 2020
  • The jaw and teeth are missing, and the right eye socket is mangled.
    — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Apply a dot of hot glue to each acorn and affix to the eye socket caps as pupils.
    — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 12 Aug. 2022
  • For the half-skull effect, paint along your eye sockets.
    — Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 18 June 2019
  • First, an impression is made of the inside of the eye socket.
    — Belle Bakst, Allure, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Four Whites The four white points are near the top of your cheekbone, about a finger's width below the eye socket.
    — Lisa Desantis, Health, 19 June 2023
  • While forcing the gun into her hands, a shot went off and sailed through his right eye socket.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
  • Joe Johnson crashed to the floor after a dunk, breaking a bone in his eye socket.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
  • My eye socket was smashed down and pushed in about five millimeters and my eye popped.
    — Michael Lerseth, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
  • The lobotomy is a favorite, a swift blow with a hammer and ice pick straight through the eye socket.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
  • The man who was knocked to the ground suffered injuries to his head and left eye socket, FOX 5 reported.
    — Fox News, 25 July 2019
  • The cops dropped him off in handcuffs so that he could be treated for three fractures to his eye socket and swelling to his brain.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 June 2018
  • Then, rest the glass against the bone under your eye socket and pour the liquid over your eye to try to rinse out whatever is in there.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Aug. 2018
  • An orbital floor is the bottom portion of an eye socket.
    — Monroe Trombly, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • When Sharples picked himself up out of the pool of his blood on the floor, his skull was fractured, his eye socket shattered, and his eye drooped out of place.
    — Evan Allen, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Cut eye sockets with top of knife tilted toward the pumpkin.
    — Woman's Day Staff, Woman's Day, 25 July 2018
  • In late May, Rodriguez and the surgical team spent 21 hours in surgery, transferring the donor's face, eye socket and eye to James.
    — Jon Lapook, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • When threatened, the horned lizard of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico can shoot arcs of blood from their eye sockets.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 23 Sep. 2017
  • Studying eye sockets tells artists how to orient the peepers.
    — Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2020
  • The attack fractured the officer's eye socket and left him with a scratch near his eye, police said.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The attack fractured the officer’s eye socket and left him with a scratch near his eye, police said.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Young and English are accused of punching an 18-year-old in the face, causing a broken nose and eye socket.
    — Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 7 Feb. 2020
  • Anna Zhavnerovich woke with a start, her purple eye sockets and swollen lips throbbing.
    — Yulia James and Sophia Jones, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The round ball-like structures forming inside the eye socket are fungus.
    — Matt Kasson, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The injury left Douglas with a bruised eye socket and a gash in his forehead that required stitches.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The raw canvas around the face, including the eye sockets, gives the piece its intensity.
    — Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Swedish goggles are a specific type of goggles designed to fit snugly inside the eye socket.
    — Marisa Petrarca, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The malar area is located below the eye socket bone, and malar edema will present as puffy pouches that sit a little closer to the cheek than directly under the eyes.
    — Taryn Brooke, Allure, 1 Feb. 2024

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