How to Use brow ridge in a Sentence

brow ridge

noun

• The head began to take shape, the brow ridge, the nose, the ears, the curls.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2021
• The skull features a thick brow ridge and large square eye sockets.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 June 2021
• When Neanderthal fossils first came to light in the mid-1800s, researchers were struck by the low, thick brow ridge on their skulls.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
• In the past, researchers have proposed that the brow ridge served a practical function.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Apr. 2018
• The cavernous eye sockets sat beneath a bulging brow ridge; the domed roof seemed more oblong and less rounded than a human’s.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 May 2018
• Their foreheads were sloped, with thick, protruding brow ridges.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
• Women who take growth hormone may grow a bigger jaw or more prominent brow ridge.
  — William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
• The result showed the face of a typical Neanderthal, jutting from the skull and complete with protruding brow ridges.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 10 July 2019
• The skull had a prominent brow ridge, a larger area below the eye sockets, and — most distinctively — a bulge at the back that resembles hair tied in a bun.
  — Stephanie Demarco, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
• For me, the face started looking vaguely human about halfway through (at around 1:20), although the brow ridges are still much too prominent and the nostrils and mouth far too wide.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2020
• Cottonmouths have vertical pupils and facial pits, and when viewed from above, their eyes aren't visible because of their brow ridges.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 10 July 2019
• Over the years, scientists have put forth a number of theories about why humans of millennia past had a protruding brow ridge.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
• Maybe, the researchers thought, Kabwe’s pronounced brow ridge did not serve a structural or mechanical function.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
• The hairline and the brow ridge, Deschamps-Braly felt, should be five to six centimetres apart; the eyebrows should be about sixty-five millimetres from the tip of the nose; the nasal septum should be about fifteen millimetres from the upper lip.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
• Hominins had pronounced brow ridges, but modern humans evolved mobile eyebrows as their face shape became smaller.
  — Katy Scott, CNN, 5 May 2018
• Some have focused on possible hormonal changes, trying to understand why humans today have skulls that lack the large brow ridges and thicker bone of our fossil ancestors.
  — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
• Neanderthals possessed a strong double-arched brow ridge, relatively large noses and relatively large front teeth.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 18 May 2022
• Typically, cisgender women have softer and rounder foreheads while cisgender men have prominent brow ridges that shadow the eyes.
  — Serena Daniari, Allure, 23 Mar. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024