An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid.
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Examples for "sty"
Examples for "sty"
1Then she opened the doors of the sty and waved her wand.
2I'd rather sleep in a sty than stay in this stinking place.
3Two boys were approaching the sty, respect and caution in every step.
4The tent was a mere gipsy hovel, like a sty for pigs.
5What chance had a young life in such a sty of filth?
1STYE (HORDEOLUM).-Thisis a swelling beginning in a gland or glands at the edge of the lid and pus forms finally.
1One patient in the lanolin eye ointment group had an eye infection.
2Quinonez barely ate during her ordeal and picked up an eye infection.
3Shingles and its tendency to lead to serious eye infection and double vision.
4These days Tobias has lost the face-paint -it eventually gave him an eye infection.
5My eye infection had worsened, and I could barely see out of my right eye.
1That cursed reek of yours would kill a hog of the stye.
2Here is an attempt to be rid of a stye in the eye.
3To the watchers by the stye the moments seemed intolerable.
4You'd be better in the stye along with the pigs!
5Conventional remedy: What you describe sounds like a stye.
6As they approached the stye, Harry turned away his head with a look of disgust.
7If I want the pig, I'll search his stye.
8Beside her stood the man with the stye, yawning.
9The bread was thrown deftly and unostentatiously into the stye, but Hyacinth saw through the manœuvre.
10Hyacinth wriggled back, and sent a short ladder down through the window of the inner stye.
11You notice how sweet it keeps the stye.
12He went nearer and nearer to the stye.
13He ought to have been at home safe in his stye, and not wandering about the hills.
14A pasty youth with a stye and a stammer told me Appius Priscillus had received my messages.
15When it does not reach the pus stage, it often leaves a hard swelling (blind stye).
16Two families were already established in the place of one, and the house was already like unto a stye.