How to Use eye socket in a Sentence

eye socket

noun
  • Move all the way to the top of your head, but avoid your eye socket area.
    — Melanie Simon, Time, 7 Mar. 2018
  • At the top of the trail, a rough stone house fills the eye socket of a cave.
    — Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Wind a toy snake through the eye sockets to up the fear factor.
    — Ella Field, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The team also measured the ring of bones that make up the eye socket.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 6 May 2021
  • The jaw and teeth are missing, and the right eye socket is mangled.
    — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Apply a dot of hot glue to each acorn and affix to the eye socket caps as pupils.
    — Blair Donovan, Country Living, 12 Aug. 2022
  • My eye socket was smashed down and pushed in about five millimeters and my eye popped.
    — Michael Lerseth, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Aug. 2021
  • While forcing the gun into her hands, a shot went off and sailed through his right eye socket.
    — Jonathan Rowe, SPIN, 28 June 2022
  • First, an impression is made of the inside of the eye socket.
    — Belle Bakst, Allure, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The orbital floor is the set of bottom bones that, with other bones, form the eye socket.
    — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Studying eye sockets tells artists how to orient the peepers.
    — Popular Science, 11 Apr. 2020
  • Better to get a little hole in the ceiling than a hole in someone's eye socket.
    — Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Joe Johnson crashed to the floor after a dunk, breaking a bone in his eye socket.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
  • The lobotomy is a favorite, a swift blow with a hammer and ice pick straight through the eye socket.
    — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2021
  • My grandmother’s thin hair lay in wisps around her forehead and her eye sockets were dark purple.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The round ball-like structures forming inside the eye socket are fungus.
    — Matt Kasson, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • There’s two fractures in my left eye socket due to an aggressive hit, along with nose and jaw fractures.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 19 June 2018
  • Mitchell lost two teeth, sustained a fractured jaw, and had surgery to reconstruct his eye socket.
    — NBC News, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Anna Zhavnerovich woke with a start, her purple eye sockets and swollen lips throbbing.
    — Yulia James and Sophia Jones, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The cops dropped him off in handcuffs so that he could be treated for three fractures to his eye socket and swelling to his brain.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 June 2018
  • The plan was to put a plate in my eye socket to keep my eye from sinking into my sinus cavity.
    — Chelsea Myslik, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
  • The inmate was treated for a fractured eye socket and needed stitches in his lip.
    — Jocelyn Gecker, Star Tribune, 20 May 2021
  • These are people like me, whose hearts could fit in my chest, whose eyes could fit in my eye sockets, who were desirous of a lover’s touch.
    — The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The attack fractured the officer's eye socket and left him with a scratch near his eye, police said.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The attack fractured the officer’s eye socket and left him with a scratch near his eye, police said.
    — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Anderson was jumped again in late August, his eye socket broken in the process.
    — Rachel Wisniewski, STAT, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Ben-Shalom pushed the brain out of her eye socket and back into the correct position in her skull.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Her left eye socket, roof of her mouth, optic nerves, nose and upper lip were all profoundly damaged.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 24 June 2026
  • Then, rest the glass against the bone under your eye socket and pour the liquid over your eye to try to rinse out whatever is in there.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Aug. 2018
  • The cavernous eye sockets sat beneath a bulging brow ridge; the domed roof seemed more oblong and less rounded than a human’s.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 May 2018

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