FANG in a Sentence

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For FANG, below is one of 16 sentences:
Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.

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 Meanings and Examples of FANG
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fang
 n.  catching with the teeth; long, pointed tooth
Classic Sentence:
1  Jealousy had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary: it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  The lovers of the chase say that the hare feels more agony during the pursuit of the greyhounds, than when she is struggling in their fangs.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
3  It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where the poison fangs had done their work.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
4  Toller lets him loose every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs upon.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
5  In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end until they looked like the huge corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. First Report of Dr. Watson
6  I have one here without the fangs, and Teddy catches it every night to please the folk in the canteen.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. The Adventure of The Crooked Man
7  A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
8  She was surrounded by fangs and sneering eyes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
10  She immediately fell into the slave-trader's fangs, and was doomed for the New Orleans market.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
12  At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its appearance at the door, with a hideous laugh which exhibited not teeth, but fangs.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
13  We are walking to the fangs awaiting us somewhere among the great, silent trees.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART SEVEN
Example Sentence:
1  There's something sharp, the fang, which is probing and penetrating and moving into it.
2  With fangs one and a quarter-inch-long, this viper is one of the most venomous snakes in the world.
3  The snake sank its fangs into its victim.