How to Use earlobe in a Sentence

earlobe

noun

• The first set starts above the ear, the second set is at the earlobe, and the third is at the nape.
  — Crystal Martin, New York Times, 26 July 2016
• Here’s what to know if you, like me, have large holes in your earlobes.
  — Talia Abbas, SELF, 1 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, 27 Oct. 2018
• The patient, Pierce, came in to have a cyst removed from his earlobe.
  — Sarah Midkiff, refinery29.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• Scars are hidden in the ear and sideburn and behind the earlobe.
  — Jessica Matlin, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Nov. 2021
• Certain earrings have a fish hook style in the back that loops through your earlobe.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 13 May 2021
• Keep their earlobes safe and stylish with these sweet earring sets.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 21 Nov. 2023
• There’s a trick to putting them in, too: Grab your earlobe and pull it toward the back of your head to open the ear canal a little wider.
  — Amber Brenza, SELF, 4 Feb. 2018
• Oscar Pareja scratched the back of his left earlobe with his left hand.
  — Ivan Orozco, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019
• Some of the rubbery squishiness of your earlobe poured out of a bottle or a can just a short time ago.
  — Curt Stager, Discover Magazine, 24 Oct. 2014
• As Bany bent to pick up his equipment, Raglin shot him in the left side of his neck, just below the earlobe, killing him.
  — Amber Hunt, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2021
• In fact, his next victim did have one of her earlobes severed.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 2 Feb. 2018
• The man wore a copper bracelet and had golden earlobe plugs, but the woman was truly blinged out.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 10 Mar. 2021
• Gently pull all of your hair to one side and place the middle against the nape of your neck, behind your earlobe or lower.
  — Allure, 14 July 2017
• The anti-tragus is placed on the small hill of cartilage right above your earlobe.
  — Sophie Saint Thomas, Allure, 15 Dec. 2017
• At the back of this cavity — more or less in line with your earlobe — is your nasopharynx, where the back of your nose meets the top of your throat.
  — New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• A lot of hoop options are dipped or plated, partly to keep price low and to keep the bigger styles light enough not to drag the earlobe down.
  — Daisy Shaw-Ellis, Vogue, 1 Mar. 2021
• Contrast Spielberg’s take on the same blow; his Jet gets jabbed with a nail, right through the earlobe, and Schrank, the bad Samaritan, yanks it out.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2021
• Her nails are bright pink; cameo earrings shake in her long, wrinkled earlobes.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• One cause is wear and tear on your earlobes from years talking on the phone with your earrings stretching out the holes from the pressure of the headset.
  — Ellen Warren, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2019
• There was the time in law school when Daniel decided to pierce his earlobe with something—a safety pin?
  — Kate Walbert, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2021
• Into the ’60s, chin, cheeks, neck and earlobe prosthetics were added.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2023
• Not a bro hug, but a full chest-to-chest embrace, Kelli’s Ray-Bans against Buckley’s yin-yang earlobe plugs.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• During surgery in 2014, Chaiyasate used a tiny piece of tubing to fashion an earring in her right earlobe.
  — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2017
• The crab flopped to the table, its claws cantilevered upward, as if begging for a chance to clip off the fellow's dainty earlobe.
  — Dwight Garner, Town & Country, 5 June 2013
• Crystal in diamante form delivered major bling, both at the earlobe and the waist.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2021
• The creature is shown pressing a gnarled forefinger to an earlobe.
  — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2020
• Smart little jackets with shoulders that dusted the earlobes, and sleeves that dangled to mid-thigh.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2020
• Why look to the cosmos for a little twinkle when the cosmos could simply dangle from your earlobes?
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2023
• Two sensors that press against your earlobe act as a reference for the forehead sensor.
  — Christina Bonnington, WIRED, 13 July 2012

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024