'eyelid' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to the thin fold of tissue that covers and protects the eye. For example: "The child had an itchy eyelid and couldn't stop rubbing it."
She was hit on the head twice with a chair, leaving a scar over her right eyelid, and was thrown on the floor, causing pain to her lower back, waist and kidneys.
Yet male participation rates in psychology, sociology, and religious studies are regularly well below 40% and no one bats an eyelid.
They don't bat an eyelid when they don't pay authors for a novel, but people will still pay for an iPad or a Kindle to read the work for free".
Rosemary showed us how to transform ourselves into virtually any age and race, using a chart showing a man's head surrounded by tips for each part of his face ("For drunkenness or fatigue, a touch of carmine just below the eyelid... ......)... ......
"Back then, you wouldn't have batted an eyelid if someone walked down the road with a couple of picture frames under his arm," says a local woman, named Schmidt, who is in her 80s and moved to the neighbourhood in 1970.
According to bendygandhi: "You can be anything you want in London and no-one will bat an eyelid... London is a dirty, old, beauty of a city and its grumpy, mixed up and open inhabitants make it great".
You wouldn't bat an eyelid now.
Third, Indians are admirably comfortable with eccentricity: if you don't bat an eyelid at a religious sect that walks about naked, or accept that your neighbour meditates for much of his life, you won't carp about a single-minded record-seeker either.A last, related, explanation is that individuals use records as a path to modest glory and income.
Moreover American consumers have hardly batted an eyelid at genetically modified crops; nor are they worried about growth hormones.
The reason, he says, is that his partner and two young daughters live there, and he wants to be a more active father.If Mr Asmussen were Scandinavian, hardly anybody would bat an eyelid.
The head of a rival says, without batting an eyelid, that it would be conceivable to raise $100 billion in the next decade.The worriers are right to fear that all this could become reckless.
