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Direct impact often results in permanent blindness and, in rare cases, penetration of the brain through the eye socket.—Michele Heisler, The Conversation, 4 Feb. 2026 At the top of the trail, a rough stone house fills the eye socket of a cave.—Roger Naylor, AZCentral.com, 29 Jan. 2026 Clearly looking to shock, Raimi depicts bodily injury in oozing detail, whether that means thrusting the camera into Bradley’s festering leg wound or watching one of the pair plunge their thumb into the eye socket of the other.—Peter Debruge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026 All is sexy and good until her new boyfriend Peter starts seeing and feeling bugs — in the room, in the walls, under his skin, within his eye sockets.—Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for eye socket