earlobe
Americannoun
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earlobes
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
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Origin of earlobe
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"My brother's got his right earlobe missing," Lee said.
From BBC ● May 19, 2026
Because continuous earlobe temperature has not been studied widely, the team also explored potential applications to guide future research.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 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
Like the color of your eyes or shape of your earlobe, the structure of your hairline is actually quite individual and says a great deal about you.
From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2021
It bounced off, making a little dent under her earlobe, like a fold in the skin that was hardly a disfigurement at all.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
You don't get mad at people over their finger length or whether their earlobes are detached.
From Salon ● Mar. 16, 2023
I wonder: Is it because favorite earrings are worn more often, thus putting them in harm’s way, fated to dangle dangerously from the earlobes like an alpinist clinging to a mountain crag?
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2022
In 2019, during further moves on censorship, China blurred out the earlobes of some of its young male pop stars in television and internet appearances to hide their piercings.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2021
For John Lithgow as Roger Ailes, he made a nose piece, added to Lithgow’s cheeks, neck and earlobes and changed the hairline to reflect Ailes’s bigger forehead.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2019
This time she pulled at her father’s earlobes and tousled his hair.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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