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stye

[ UK /stˈa‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

How To Use stye In A Sentence

  • A stye is caused by infection of a gland at the base of one or more eyelashes.
  • I did not care for Bush II, but I like his stye about leading. President Obama heads back to familiar city
  • I am extremely close to someone who has been in the New Orleans home of one of your aforementioned celebrities and it is a pig stye … so no worries, life gets messy, I on the other hand am being stalked by a rather large and angry looking dust bunny right now … Good Housekeeping: Totally Slobtastic Slackermom Edition | Her Bad Mother
  • Stye-The scientific name for a stye is a hordeolum. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
  • Combining the old with the new, Hockey exhibits this digital series in an old fashion stye exhibit, displaying various drawings together in a geometric grid-like manner. David Hockney Trades In His Drawing Pad For An iPad
  • But it was still cold, only just above freezing, and I have a theory that skin infections of any kind, even a mild one like a stye, are liable to worsen when exposed to bitterly cold air.
  • Circe now drove them all together into a stye, and flung down beechmast, and acorns, and cornel berries, for them to eat. Stories from the Odyssey
  • The main course was a trout cooked in a fluffy pastry shell, called forel v tyestye. Dance Of Desire
  • As he developed a stye on his right eye, his mood became 'unmellow'. The Times Literary Supplement
  • At the risk of this blog becoming no more than a personal record of health maladies both real and imagined, I have this painful godawful stye in the outside corner of my right eye.
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