How to Use brow ridge in a Sentence

brow ridge

noun
Definition of brow ridgenext
  • The head began to take shape, the brow ridge, the nose, the ears, the curls.
    — New York Times, 25 June 2021
  • The skull features a thick brow ridge and large square eye sockets.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 27 June 2021
  • When Neanderthal fossils first came to light in the mid-1800s, researchers were struck by the low, thick brow ridge on their skulls.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2018
  • In the past, researchers have proposed that the brow ridge served a practical function.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The cavernous eye sockets sat beneath a bulging brow ridge; the domed roof seemed more oblong and less rounded than a human’s.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 9 May 2018
  • Their foreheads were sloped, with thick, protruding brow ridges.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Women who take growth hormone may grow a bigger jaw or more prominent brow ridge.
    — William Neff, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
  • The result showed the face of a typical Neanderthal, jutting from the skull and complete with protruding brow ridges.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 10 July 2019
  • The skull had a prominent brow ridge, a larger area below the eye sockets, and — most distinctively — a bulge at the back that resembles hair tied in a bun.
    — Stephanie Demarco, latimes.com, 10 July 2019
  • For me, the face started looking vaguely human about halfway through (at around 1:20), although the brow ridges are still much too prominent and the nostrils and mouth far too wide.
    — Quanta Magazine, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Cottonmouths have vertical pupils and facial pits, and when viewed from above, their eyes aren't visible because of their brow ridges.
    — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 10 July 2019
  • Over the years, scientists have put forth a number of theories about why humans of millennia past had a protruding brow ridge.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Maybe, the researchers thought, Kabwe’s pronounced brow ridge did not serve a structural or mechanical function.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The hairline and the brow ridge, Deschamps-Braly felt, should be five to six centimetres apart; the eyebrows should be about sixty-five millimetres from the tip of the nose; the nasal septum should be about fifteen millimetres from the upper lip.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Hominins had pronounced brow ridges, but modern humans evolved mobile eyebrows as their face shape became smaller.
    — Katy Scott, CNN, 5 May 2018
  • Some have focused on possible hormonal changes, trying to understand why humans today have skulls that lack the large brow ridges and thicker bone of our fossil ancestors.
    — John Hawks, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2019
  • Neanderthals possessed a strong double-arched brow ridge, relatively large noses and relatively large front teeth.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 18 May 2022
  • Typically, cisgender women have softer and rounder foreheads while cisgender men have prominent brow ridges that shadow the eyes.
    — Serena Daniari, Allure, 23 Mar. 2019

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