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Examples of eye socket in a Sentence
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The plan was to put a plate in my eye socket to keep my eye from sinking into my sinus cavity.
—Chelsea Myslik, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
Advertisement After spending six days in the ICU in Reno, he was transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where another medical team tended to his shattered cheekbones, jaw and eye socket.
—Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
But further cleaning revealed that the size and shape of the eye socket resembled that of South Asian river dolphins, which have much smaller eyes than their South American cousins.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
Swedish goggles are a specific type of goggles designed to fit snugly inside the eye socket.
—Marisa Petrarca, Travel + Leisure, 20 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1661, in the meaning defined above
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“Eye socket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eye%20socket. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
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eye socket
nounMedical Definition
eye socket
noun
: orbit
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