TOOTHACHE in a Sentence

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For TOOTHACHE, below is one of 16 sentences:
She was afflicted with toothache; one tooth after another ulcerated, and she went about with her face swollen half the time.

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 Meanings and Examples of TOOTHACHE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
toothache
 n.  an ache localized in or around a tooth
Classic Sentence:
1  I had struck him hard enough to give him the toothache, I suppose.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. MISCHIEF
2  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
3  And as bad luck would have it, he has toothache too.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 4
4  And his jaw twitched impatiently from the incessant gnawing toothache, that prevented him from even speaking with a natural expression.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 5
5  And all at once a different pain, not an ache, but an inner trouble, that set his whole being in anguish, made him for an instant forget his toothache.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 5
6  He lost all consciousness of toothache, and his face worked with sobs.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 8: Chapter 5
7  Indeed, the kisses exchanged were so vigorous that both suffered from toothache for the greater portion of the day.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
8  "Well, even in toothache there is enjoyment," I answer.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IV
9  I had toothache for a whole month and I know there is.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IV
10  Well, stay awake then, you, too, feel every minute that I have toothache.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: IV
11  Tom got out of the presence as quick as he plausibly could, and after that he complained of toothache for a week, and tied up his jaws every night.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  Tom's distress of mind wore off gradually and the toothache grew irksome and was discarded.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  She was afflicted with toothache; one tooth after another ulcerated, and she went about with her face swollen half the time.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
14  It may be so, lad," muttered the scout, when he had ended; "for desperate fevers are not to be treated like a toothache.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14
15  None of them stopped her toothache.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
Example Sentence:
1  He used to scoff at dentists after he had his first toothache.