Examples of eye socket in a Sentence
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The huge decision resulted in an enucleation surgery, a medical term for the removal of the entire eyeball from the eye socket.
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
Transorbital lobotomies, which used a tool inserted into the back of the eye socket, were conducted on about 60,000 people across the U.S. between 1936 and 1956 alone.
—Frieda Klotz, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
Washington punched the woman in the face, breaking her eye socket.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 13 May 2025
Orbital cellulitis is an even worse situation when the eye socket is affected.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
Transorbital lobotomies, which used a tool inserted into the back of the eye socket, were conducted on about 60,000 people across the U.S. between 1936 and 1956 alone.
—Frieda Klotz, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
Washington punched the woman in the face, breaking her eye socket.
—Mara H. Gottfried, Twin Cities, 13 May 2025
Orbital cellulitis is an even worse situation when the eye socket is affected.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
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“Eye socket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/eye%20socket. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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