earlobe
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of earlobe
Example Sentences
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The photo shows a bandage across the side of his face and a line of stitches from his earlobe to below his jaw.
From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025
There is an alternative: a prick to the fingertip or earlobe.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2024
“Disappointment. Frustration. Hypocrisy,” said Harper, a 33-year-old cradle Catholic who fit the fashion of a woke warrior with his trucker hat, nose ring and small gauges in each earlobe.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2021
Because you never catch anything, the only real fight is between you and the gear, the struggle not to bury a hook in your own earlobe.
From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2020
How she hoped the bear did not smell the bear-killing dogs or the bear claw that swung on a silver hoop from Old Tallow’s earlobe.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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