(1) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.
(2) The Telegraph's secret taping of Cable and fellow Liberal Democrat ministers while pretending to be concerned constituents has raised eyebrows in some media quarters, but the newspaper has claimed a "clear public interest" defence for its actions.
(3) Three of the anecdotes around which David Cameron built his case in the debate became the subject of questioning and raised eyebrows, as reporters, bloggers and Twitter users launched their own factchecking operations.
(4) James raised some eyebrows in a 2015 interview when she declared her admiration for Russian president Vladimir Putin, describing him as “a strong leader” who stands up for his country.
(5) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
(6) When Donald Trump takes the Japanese prime minister , Shinzo Abe, to his resort at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, this weekend, eyebrows will rise – and not just because of the glaring conflict of interest in hosting a state visit at a flagship Trump property.
(7) Eyebrows, eyelashes and body hair were completely absent.
(8) She were remorseful all right,” pouted Mercedes, a woman who only has to raise one on-fleek eyebrow to garner a full confession.
(9) Newcastle United suffered a sixth straight defeat, Harry Kane rediscovered his scoring touch, Tottenham Hotspur climbed to sixth place and eyebrows were raised when the official attendance was announced.
(10) "Some even call me her pet," he sighs, raising his eyebrows in exasperation.
(11) The very words Therapeutic Use Exemption understandably cause an involuntary raising of the eyebrows.
(12) But the size of the new business has raised a few eyebrows.
(13) His appointment there during the first couple weeks of Trump’s presidency raised eyebrows, as “advisers” do not traditionally hold such a role.
(14) He often seems mysteriously amused, cocking an eyebrow and pulling a coy, wouldn’t-you-like-to-know smirk, but he likes to laugh out loud, too.
(15) So while it’s apparently unacceptable to leak details about surveillance that affects ordinary citizens’ privacy, its OK for officials to do so for their own political benefit - and no one raises an eyebrow.
(16) Cellino raised eyebrows this summer when he appointed Hockaday, whose previous managerial experience was limited to an unimpressive stint at non-league Forest Green Rovers.
(17) Of 257 named characters, only a handful dare shoot up an ironic eyebrow, fewer dally in high camp.
(18) The Scottish Conservatives leader, Ruth Davidson, has raised eyebrows by posting a picture of the actor Gillian Anderson in lingerie on social media.
(19) The huge rail trade fair in west Berlin last week raised even the eyebrows of David Higgins, the boss of Network Rail , who has seen a train or two: you wouldn't, he said, know there was a recession on here.
(20) He went on to make a series of well-received comedies set in his New Jersey "View Askewniverse" (Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back) before 2004's ill-fated Jersey Girl raised eyebrows by casting Jennifer Lopez.
Hair
Definition:
(n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body.
(n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin.
(n.) Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.
(n.) A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth.
(n.) An outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. Internal hairs occur in the flower stalk of the yellow frog lily (Nuphar).
(n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.
(n.) A haircloth.
(n.) Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(2) The surface of all cells was covered by a fuzzy coat consisting of fine hairs or bristles.
(3) We have isolated a murine cDNA clone, pCAL-F559, for the calcium-binding protein calcyclin by differential screening of a cDNA library made from RNA isolated from hair follicles of 6-d-old mice.
(4) White hair bulbs which demonstrated no TH activity formed 2SCD, but not 5SCD.
(5) Isolated outer hair cells from the organ of Corti of the guinea pig have been shown to change length in response to a mechanical stimulus in the form of a tone burst at a fixed frequency of 200 Hz (Canlon et al., 1988).
(6) We have reported on a simple and secure method of tying up hair during transplantation surgery for alopecia.
(7) Bone age has been analyzed mixed-longitudinally in a subsample of 370 patients (660 observations) and showed a slight retardation at all ages between 6 and 13 yr. Development of pubic hair of 91 subjects analyzed cross-sectionally was definitely retarded when compared to adequate reference data.
(8) Tumors were induced in athymic, T-cell-deficient nude mice and in syngeneic normal haired mice by treatment with low doses of 3-methylcholantrene (MCA).
(9) As I looked further, I saw that there was blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that to the right area of her skull."
(10) A new method of staining the keratin filament matrix allowing a visualization of the filaments in cross section of hair fibres has been developed.
(11) However, in subjects with alopecia there was no such difference and the growth rate of all the hairs showed a continuous distribution.
(12) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(13) After 7 days, various stages of sensory hair degeneration could be observed.
(14) This review of androgenetic alopecia (AA) in women provides a summary of hair physiology and biochemistry, a general discussion of AA, and a brief description of other types of hair loss in women.
(15) Subungual hair penetration appears to be much less common.
(16) Steep longitudinal and transverse gradients of glycogen are known to exist in the organ of Corti of the guinea pig, with preferential accumulation in the outer hair cells of the apical turns.
(17) Of four normal tissues assessed, two (hair follicles and tissues responsible for development of leg contractures) showed no change in radioresponse after treatment with indomethacin, one (hematopoietic tissue) exhibited radioprotection, and one (jejunum) exhibited slight radiosensitization (enhancement factor, 1.12).
(18) On the other hand, the total number of missing hair cells, irrespective of location, was a good, general indicator of the hearing capacity in a given ear.
(19) The objective was to determine whether the parent axonal impulse train elicited by dual-hair stimulation was due to a temporal combining ("mixing"; Fukami, 1980) of the impulse trains elicited in the parent axons by the same stimulation to each hair alone.
(20) In addition to descriptions of variants of the root appearance for hairs removed from follicles in the three classical growth phases, several other commonly occurring root configurations are described and illustrated with photomicrographs.