noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
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He sucked like a babe, as she teased his back with her long fingernails .
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Her long fingernails clacked against the rim of a champagne glass.
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She also has to wear a set of hideously long fingernails .
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Her eyelids are green, she has long fingernails , painted in red.
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She gently covered it with her own, and deliberately pinched the flesh with her long fingernails .
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She eased his foreskin back, and lightly scratched the helmet with her long red fingernails .
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His long fingernails attest that his was not a life of hard physical labour but that he was probably of noble birth.
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Watching him refill her glass, she noticed he had unusually long fingernails for a man.
■ VERB
bite
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They thought the vocals were nice on the record, but everybody was biting their fingernails about a concert.
paint
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You had bitter aloes painted on to your fingernails to stop you biting them.
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With the tip of her painted fingernail , the dancer salesgirl showed the miniature castanets the doll was holding.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Stop biting your fingernails.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Fielding knelt and ticked a fingernail against the sedimented glass of the fishtank.
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He dug his fingernails into the raw itchiness along his part.
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He grew his fingernails long on the right hand, saying that made it easier to pluck the strings.
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Her long fingernails clacked against the rim of a champagne glass.
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I could tell because she was nibbling her fingernails and then trying not to.
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Liz's fingernails were tingling, her nerves crawling with frustration.
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She turned her thumb- and fingernails in and pinched, probing for painful pulses between the bones.