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If calling your friend’s name and shaking their shoulders doesn’t work, Stoner suggests rubbing their sternum (breastbone) with your knuckles or pinching their earlobe. — Natasha Lavender, SELF, "What to Do if Your Friend Is Passed Out Drunk," 26 Feb. 2019 After ripping her earlobe in the middle of a show, Beyoncé carried on like a superhuman. — Maria Yagoda, PEOPLE.com, "The 16 Most Beyoncé Things That Have Ever Happened," 18 June 2018 On Wednesday, in a few tweets of her own, Zolciak-Biermann gave a little insight into the process of getting earlobe fillers. — Andrea Park, Allure, "Kim Zolciak-Biermann Gets Hyaluronic Acid Fillers in Her Earlobes Because She Loves Heavy Earrings So Much," 2 May 2018 Whether the bottom of your earlobes stick to the side of your face or hang free is the result of one gene. — Brian Resnick, Vox, "Genetics has learned a ton — mostly about white people. That’s a problem.," 27 Oct. 2018 Studies have shown that there is an association with the visible external crease on the earlobe and increased risk of atherosclerosis, a disease where plaque builds up inside your arteries. — Adam Taylor, CNN, "Heart disease risk may show in your earlobes, eyes, fingers," 29 Mar. 2018 Fourteen percent of Americans had a body piercing (somewhere other than their earlobes) in 2014. — Mary Bernard, Philly.com, "Will that tattoo hurt you professionally? Not if you're a doctor, study finds," 9 July 2018 Not a bro hug, but a full chest-to-chest embrace, Kelli’s Ray-Bans against Buckley’s yin-yang earlobe plugs. — Washington Post, "In the Army and the Klan, he hated Muslims.," 5 June 2018 Here’s what to know if you, like me, have large holes in your earlobes. — Talia Abbas, SELF, "So, You Ripped a Hole in Your Earlobe—Here's How to Fix It," 1 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'earlobe.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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