Example Sentences

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Hmm, buckteeth; sandy hair, smooth in front, cowlick in back; brown eyes, can’t see in the dark worth a nickel; hickeys on the chin.

From It’s like this, cat by Neville, Emily

If the stitches were big and uneven, he gave two hickeys and a pinch, and one boy got half a dozen, because Johnny said his dirty hands made the thread gray.

From The Quilt that Jack Built; How He Won the Bicycle by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)