Thin fold of skin that covers and protects the human eye.
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Examples for "eyelids "
Examples for "eyelids "
1 I thought I felt some kind of pressure building behind my eyelids .
2 She was claiming him in the drooping eyelids , in the nodding head.
3 Sleep would rest upon the eyelids of Sunni-ji in the south balcony.
4 A moment later, she gasped for air as her eyelids blinked open.
5 He was near; and quietly the eyelids of mademoiselle lifted on him.
1 Of course I realised afterwards that his hat had just caught his eye lid but it was comfort when I needed it.
2 Carefully, her left eye lid is rolled back and clamped, revealing thick layers of scar tissue upon scar tissue, and the surgeon begins slicing.
3 After an ambulance, a boat trip and another ambulance I was having my eye lid stitched back together and popped into the CT machine.
4 He was surprised to see how rarely she lowered her eye lids .
5 My eye lids , like leaden caps, fell over my eyes.
6 He catches my eye and looks at the floor, his dark eyes lidded , half-ashamed.
7 Dissipation ravaged his countenance, but stern malignancy and wary cunning still radiated from behind half-shut eye lids .
8 Strabo ignored them, eyes lidded , snout inhaling the fumes and fires of the crater on which he rested.
10 Dirk's eyes lidded to half-mast.
11 I have no answer for you. He inclined his head, eyes lidding to hide some of the fire in his gaze.
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