TOOTH in a Sentence

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For TOOTH, below is one of 45 sentences:
She had come so hurriedly that she had in her small carpetbag only a nightgown and a tooth brush, not even a change of underwear.

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 Meanings and Examples of TOOTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
tooth
 n.  hard bonelike structures in the jaws, used for biting and chewing
 n.  one of a number of uniform projections on a gear
Classic Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  So he thought he would hold the tooth in reserve for the present, and seek further.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  The old lady made one end of the silk thread fast to Tom's tooth with a loop and tied the other to the bedpost.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  The tooth hung dangling by the bedpost, now.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  I asked her to let me think a minute; and she set there, very impatient and excited and handsome, but looking kind of happy and eased-up, like a person that's had a tooth pulled out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII.
5  It was a continual scratching, as if made by a huge claw, a powerful tooth, or some iron instrument attacking the stones.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
6  He had nothing more to do now, but with the iron tooth of the pickaxe to draw the stones towards him one by one.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24. The Secret Cave.
7  On that spot, in very truth, there was, and there had long been, the gnawing and poisonous tooth of bodily pain.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
8  It was a last year's nut, and already gnawed by his sharp tooth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
9  But I've got a motive, as my fellow-partner used to say; and I go at it tooth and nail.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
10  I heard that he went to a dentist's in London on the Monday morning, and had a tooth out.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
11  He was impatiently looking forward to the news that she was married, or just going to be married, hoping that such news would, like having a tooth out, completely cure him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
12  He experienced the sensations of a man who has had a tooth out after suffering long from toothache.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
13  She had come so hurriedly that she had in her small carpetbag only a nightgown and a tooth brush, not even a change of underwear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
15  For, with but a bit of broken sea-shell or a shark's tooth, that miraculous intricacy of wooden net-work has been achieved; and it has cost steady years of steady application.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She...
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.
2  Yeah, I have a sweet tooth.
3  I haven't even touched your tooth yet.
4  A sensitive nerve in a tooth can cause great pain.
5  How sharper than a serpent's tooth is to have a thankless child.
6  Polly fell and knocked a chip out of her front tooth.
7  A tooth which has been hit hard may discolour.
8  The dentist drilled a hole in the tooth.
9  I've just had a tooth out at the dentist's.
10  She - ied with pain when the dentist pulled the tooth out.
11  A dentist may decide to extract the tooth to prevent recurrent trouble.
12  The University of Florida researcher has come up with a brilliantly simple way to tackle tooth decay.
13  The crew of the Southern Supporter, an Australian customs vessel, has finally arrived here in Cape Town harbor after an epic three-week chase through the treacherous southern ocean, dodging icebergs and high seas to arrest the crew of a ship caught poaching rare Patagonian tooth fish.
14  He bellowed with pain when the tooth was pulled out.
15  I was given gas when they pulled my tooth out.