How to Use denture in a Sentence

denture

noun
  • He was told to come back in four weeks for his dentures.
    Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2020
  • Just hit him with your cane and throw your dentures at him.
    Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 20 June 2023
  • Little Cut’ The man was rushed to surgery, where the dentures were removed.
    Helen Murphy, PEOPLE.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • An epoxy was used to fix the shell that is normally used for dentures.
    Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2019
  • But how exactly does a pair of dentures get caught in one's voice box?
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • The old story that Washington’s dentures were made of wood has long been known to be false.
    USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2020
  • The man was to have surgery and be fitted for dentures at Smile Texas, 4665 Sweetwater Blvd.
    Dana Burke, Houston Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The dentures also had the victim's name written on them.
    Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 25 July 2019
  • Among these objects are a latex glove, teeth, and dentures.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • She had been punched so hard that her upper denture was shattered.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Years of using his upper gums to chew down on his bottom denture have left the gums damaged.
    Andy Newman, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • The journey wasn't an easy one for Finlay, who finally got his full set of dentures in June 2019.
    Thatiana Diaz, refinery29.com, 13 Apr. 2020
  • The staff even fabricated dentures for him that same day.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 June 2017
  • The staff even fabricated dentures for him that same day.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 1 July 2017
  • Williams’ mother’s hands were cut off and dentures removed.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The object is to swipe treats off of Granny's plate without waking her up and making her dentures shoot out from her mouth.
    Adam Schubak, Good Housekeeping, 21 Nov. 2018
  • His elderly parents, who drove the 117 miles from Susanville to Quincy to pick him up at the jail, wound up paying for the dentures.
    Andy Furillo, sacbee.com, 12 May 2017
  • One of the victims, a 63-year-old woman, was hit in the mouth, which broke her dentures, a prosecutor told the newspaper then.
    Luke Nozicka, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
  • What works for me are denture cleaning tablets — one per cup with some hot water, and overnight, stains disappear.
    Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2020
  • And dentures. Anywhere else, the cost of those procedures would cost hundreds of dollars.
    Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2017
  • But since the event began, their services have expanded to doing root canals, crowns and dentures.
    Ethan Schmidt, azcentral, 13 Dec. 2019
  • DeYoung told police of pain in his lower back, and his dentures were broken as Chapman fell on him.
    Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 10 Aug. 2023
  • That co-insurance may be as high as 50 percent for major work like crowns or dentures.
    Tom Murphy, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The woman had lost one of her dentures, and the other was blocking her airway, according to Mr. Lincoln.
    Shaila Dewan, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Payton said of the president’s dentures, which were made from, among other things, hippo tusks.
    Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 12 May 2024
  • Keeping your mouth and teeth clean is important, so be sure to clean your dentures daily, brush your teeth after each meal or snack, and floss.
    Rebecca Maitland, Houston Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2018
  • In 50 years Amazon will be using drones to deliver your denture cream.
    Paul Ford, Wired, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Once, a patient inhaled dentures and ended up dying, the report says.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health.com, 13 Aug. 2019
  • This booze-and-Botox besotted old bag can’t manage her dentures, much less a pandemic.
    Andrew Mark Miller, Washington Examiner, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The dentures and the rest of Smith’s belongings had been thrown away by city workers as part of an aggressive effort to rid Albuquerque of homeless encampments.
    Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 16 May 2024

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