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
And one of the things that the media loves to do is gaze at their navels for hours on end by a tweet from Donald Trump or from me or from anybody else.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2016
I don’t spend much time thinking about other people’s navels.
From Time ● Mar. 6, 2015
At Katz’s, the raw navels are wet-cured for weeks before being coated in a dry rub of salt and spices, then smoked at a low temperature for about three days.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2014
It covered the dwarfs’ feet, and then it came up to their navels.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
