nail clipping
Frequency: 7.01.1 per million words
a small piece of a fingernail or toenail that has been cut off
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Examples (10)
- Please sweep up your nail clippings from the bathroom floor.
- The forensic team found a single nail clipping under the victim's chair.
- It's disgusting to find someone else's nail clippings on the coffee table.
- The vet technician carefully disposed of the dog's nail clippings after the trim.
- She examined the tiny nail clipping under a microscope for analysis.
- He was meticulously cutting his nails, letting each nail clipping fall onto a tissue.
- Accidentally stepping on a sharp nail clipping can be surprisingly painful.
- I need to throw away these nail clippings; where is the trash can?
- Proper disposal of nail clippings is an important part of personal hygiene.
- The unkempt room was littered with dust bunnies and stray nail clippings.