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  • noun Plural form of lash.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lash.

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Examples

  • As someone who spent jail time, 20 lashes is worth about one week of time, if the lashes are non-barbed leather, and the strokes are limited to a force of 20 pounds.

    Overcoming Squemishness, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Although make-up artists have always used falsies to subtly fill in lashes, some celebrities are going overboard with the glue, without casting a second glance at keeping a natural look.

    EASY ON THE EYE: Whose Lashes Are Fake And Whose Are Real? (PHOTOS, POLL) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

  • Bobby stared at that one cow; her body black, but with one large white patch the shape of Bull Shoals Lake covering her face, so that her eyelid was white too and he could see her white lashes from the backseat of their car.

    Go to Jesus Rachel Lora Simmons 2010

  • Instead of just stating "McCain lashes out at AARP" for high drama and just giving the 2009 version you showed his "flip flop" from 2008.

    McCain drills AARP for backing Medicare cuts 2009

  • The most beautiful feature was her eyes, framed in lashes as dark as her brows and hair.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • The night dark before its hour — heavily, steadily, the rain lashes and sprinkles to complete its task — ( "Seesaw")

    The Poetry of Heartbreak 2003

  • The night dark before its hour — heavily, steadily, the rain lashes and sprinkles to complete its task — ( "Seesaw")

    The Poetry of Heartbreak 2003

  • The most beautiful feature was her eyes, framed in lashes as dark as her brows and hair.

    Chapter 9 1914

  • Black eyes discharge the sharpest shafts in lashes from their lids.’

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Steve and Tyler, the lashes are the white of the paper, and I quickly split the hairs of the brush as I came around that part of the silhouette with the dark paint.

    Cow Portrait James Gurney 2010

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