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Examples of eye socket in a Sentence
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The lawsuit says the encounter left her with a broken eye socket and a laceration to her forehead, but police sources say the woman was not injured by cops, but ran into a pole.
—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 8 Aug. 2024
Flecks of decayed flesh are missing from his body and his empty eye sockets contain only a yellowish light glowing from within.
—Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
There was still a faint indentation around her eye socket, from the telescope.
—Sarah Braunstein, The New Yorker, 21 July 2024
The prosthetic consists of an artificial eye, eyelids, and any part of the eye socket or the surrounding area missing.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 27 June 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1661, in the meaning defined above
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“Eye socket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eye%20socket. Accessed 25 Sep. 2024.
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eye socket
nounMedical Definition
eye socket
noun
: orbit
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