Example Sentences

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The whacker whirred, manicuring a blanket of short-cropped grass.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2023

“I will say, out of the four Olympics I’ve been to, the manicuring and just how precise and beautiful everything is, is above and beyond,” he said after his winning race in Zhangjiakou.

From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2022

That changed in 1932 when Revlon launched what we now know as nail polish and opened this aspect of manicuring to the masses.

From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2021

By the style of her hair, and by the manicuring of her eyebrows, we know that she is a figure of recent human history.

From The New Yorker • May 14, 2019

He used to work in the garden every weekend, kneeling on a green rubber pad, obsessively inspecting every leaf as if he were manicuring fingernails.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan