How To Use Hangnail In A Sentence
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Keep the skin around your nails soft and supple and you won't get hangnails.
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Eric is also a polymath ( "he mastered the steepest matters in half an afternoon") who studies Einstein's special theory in both German and English, reads poetry, contemplates the Middle English roots of the word "hangnail" and works out faithfully (a universal trait of the protagonists of cheap thrillers).
All Day in a Rich Guy's Limo Makes for a Very Silly Novel
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All that can come of this next bad fiasco is me paying more for health insurance, as I don't want to fund anyones abortions, nor do I need a cover all plan dreamed up by some congressman who bumps military members out of the doctors office any time they need to be seen for as little as a hangnail!
House Democrats agree on health-care position, chairman says
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Modern English hangnail is said to derive from Old English agnail, not related to hanging or nails, but rather referring to a painful corn on the foot and derived from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning ‘tight’ or ‘painful’.
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Tory found it was harder to keep calm if she was looking at Nell, and pretended to study a hangnail on her ring finger.
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I'm not going to miss players barely running out fly balls and sitting out games over hangnails.
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Asking about a hangnail would be “a little crazier” than asking about a truth commission.
Matthew Yglesias » MSM Derides Bloggers For Asking Hypothetical Bad Question
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I used the term "hangnail" cause Heidi on FOX31 said it on the air during her review of a Ministry of Pot segment ..
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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Eugene peeled back the skin from a hangnail on his thumb.
THE CRASH OF HENNINGTON
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Topping my list is the Apricot Cuticle Oil, which tackles even the toughest hangnails and ragged cuticles.
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I saw that I had torn the hangnail right off my finger without even noticing.
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But I had a hangnail and was focused on my toenail clippers.
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I must have known it all along, but when it came outblunt and indignant, but also vulnerable, self-diminishing, comparing herself with a hangnail or a split hair!
Judith Lindbergh - An interview with author
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If hangnails are present, carefully clip them.
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Men are better at long-term discomfort and degradation, things like prison and jobs, than we are at extreme, shorter-term bouts of excruciating pain, things like swimming the 'fly for 28 miles, squeezing kids' heads through birth canals, and hangnails.
Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: Even Dolphins Don't Do So Many Dolphin Kicks
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Those infections, called paronychia, are caused by nibbling the skin around the fingernails, picking hangnails, trimming the cuticle too closely, wearing artificial nails, or using harsh cleansers or steel wool without wearing gloves.
Q&A: Preventing skin infections around the nails?
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Colleen, on the other hand, hunching like a sloth, wearily dragged herself up after them, continuing to bite her hangnails.
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I got a hangnail, this is gonna distract me the entire fight, I'm gonna sit this one out.
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She chews her hangnails and preoccupies herself with finding a place for her purse.
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You won't be covering your ears from the lack of pleasantries coming out of the speaker, but if you get busy picking at a pesky hangnail, you won't even notice that Desmond is on.
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But companies in the individual market also want to avoid even marginal risk -- adopting a practice some insiders call hangnail underwriting.
Concurring Opinions
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Children who bite their fingernails or pick at hangnails are more likely to get warts.
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Legally, they make them sign deals saying don't come to me for a hangnail.
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You will never hear me say * Damn, this hangnail is killing me* ever again.
Archive 2007-11-01
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It's an environment that is and highly exacting: every hangnail a sin, every eye - bag a crime.
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Not a bad way to relax, although if you have any cuts or scrapes or hangnails on you, they can really sting when you get in.
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Lawyers will ask courts for dispensation for their athletes/clients who suffer from hangovers, hangnails, imperfectly ground prescription glasses, bad cholesterol.
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If Bertuzzi were to be sued, every player who got a sliver or a hangnail because of an infraction, would be out for some money.
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Every little dent in the rickety vehicle was a tiny book in itself, and made one feel very much like a parent of a child, knowing every thing about them from missing teeth to hangnails.
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Thanks to the law, the millions who might divorce every year over hangnails, custody of the remote, who left the toilet seat up and other inconsequential differences of opinion, will come to their senses.
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That's a nasty hangnail you've got there, Bremer.
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If you get a hangnail, cut it cleanly with a cuticle scissor, but don't pick at it.
Protecting the health of your nails for a polished look
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Let's start with the ‘finger sandwiches’ description: the crusts were not always neatly removed and you could only describe them as finger sandwiches if your fingers were the size of jumbo sausages with very large hangnails.
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The woman, who in truth didn't look much older than nineteen, nervously chewed a hangnail.
DEAD BEAT
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By all means tend to her hangnails, lovingly soothe her with a pumice, scent her skin with peach and coconut and rose petals - but only for the duration of the affair.
