Examples of emery board

• Fingernails and toenails must be filed with an emery board; cutting them with a clipper is taboo.

• The emery board and a piece of sandpaper flew out of his pocket and fluttered to the ground.

• Even such very ordinary requisites to any civilised person as nail files and emery boards carry this fantastic rate of tax.

• Emery boards are inexpensive and disposable, making them a sanitary alternative to metal nail files.

• Since glass nail files have a smoother and more even surface they do not splinter the nail like emery boards or metal nail files.

• Emery boards are usually less expensive than metal nail files, therefore emery boards can be economically disposed of after use on a single person.

• Emery boards are generally less abrasive than the metal nail files, and hence, emery boards may take longer to file down nails than metal nail files.