Bringing his hand close, Narval searched for a fingernail that demanded his attention.
Hodak pressed his fingernail against a pip on the instrument in his hand and felt it vibrate with energy.
He gave up the fingernail as a lost cause, and begged the moral dilemma to go away a while.
Seated and short of breath he tried furtively to clean an over-looked fingernail with a thumbnail, an operation tinged with futility.
A fingernail could not grow from one to two inches long on the hand of one engaged in daily toil, for it would break off.
Hence a man with a long fingernail is included in the list of "retired" citizens.
The voodoo sects in Haiti used hair or fingernail parings from the subject, Gloria knew; she had learned that in her college research, but she had known about the doll long before.
He examined the handwork on the hilt, then snapped a fingernail against the blade.
He thought of the voodoo and the fingernail parings, of the savage materialism of the woman who was even now preparing herself to receive him upstairs, who was planning to relive his life with him in her image.
But when he saw the dancer again, she beckoned him silently to her side, and producing from one of her drawers a book, began to trace letters on it with a fingernail dipped in grease.
He nodded toward the ape-man, while with his own fingernailhe wrote.
See--" She inserted her fingernail under the silver band that finished the coral; the pendant opened, like a locket.
He inserted a fingernail under the band that bound the oval; hesitated, stayed by a queer reluctance.
But his hand was calm as he pressed a fingernail under the rim and opened the pendant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fingernail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
