Pits
Pits noun - Any place of pain and turmoil.
Sockets
Both words in one sentence
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One of them is described as having photosensitive hairs in the pits of their eye sockets instead of regular eyes.
Source: Literature / Great Ship -
His empty eye sockets are covered in heat-sensing pits instead.
Source: Eyes Do Not Belong There -
Then he takes them off to reveal that the magnified eyes are in the glasses themselves, and his own eye sockets are sunken, empty pits.
Source: Eye Glasses
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