socket
noun
a hollow part or piece for receiving and holding some part or thing.
sockets
Example Sentences
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“Please also remind them not to put metal into light sockets, run with scissors, or anything usually avoided with a little common sense,” she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
According to a new study published in Royal Society Open Science, ancient bees used the empty tooth sockets in the fossilized jaws as tiny nests for their offspring.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026
The single set of temporal fascia—indentations behind the eye sockets that are doubled on a reptile—is one means of scientific definition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
“These sockets saw, and these jaws spoke and swallowed. This is a monument to them. A temple.”
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2026
He balled his hands into fists again and pressed them against his eye sockets.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
