navel
noun
navels
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pluralof navel.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Paint that survived was sometimes concealed in recesses: between strands of hair, or inside navels, nostrils, and mouths.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2018
I don’t spend much time thinking about other people’s navels.
From Time ● Mar. 6, 2015
The best additions to books are the ones that do less gazing at navels and more reporting of new, relevant material.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2015
Joel McHale's other gig, the self-loathing, self-abusing survey of trash TV—in which his Community co-stars dropped by and in-jokes disappeared up their own navels with a tickle.
From Slate ● Dec. 29, 2011
Finally the sisters would cross themselves from their foreheads to their navels, and it would be over.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
