I trimmed and filed my fingernails.
He had dirt under his fingernails.
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The 11-year-old also had dried feces on his face, arms and hands, and underneath his fingernails, per the complaint.—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025 At one point, Terrill, who was wearing long acrylic fingernails, hooked her finger on one cuff to prevent the Agents from latching the second cuff onto her wrist.—Greg Norman, FOXNews.com, 16 Oct. 2025 Debris that may be key evidence could be as small as a fingernail, experts told CNN, and might have been thrown miles away.—Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025 The inner screen, however, remained fragile, showing marks even from a fingernail.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for fingernail
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