manicure
noun
a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
manicuring
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present participleof manicure.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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The whacker whirred, manicuring a blanket of short-cropped grass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2023
There’s an unreconcilable tension in a film that aims to celebrate the unpredictability of life while manicuring every last prop and casual aside for maximum resonance.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2023
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
