How to Use incisor in a Sentence

incisor

noun

• My front teeth are too long and my incisors too pointy.
  — Summer Block, Longreads, 23 Aug. 2019
• The front incisor teeth of squirrels grow half a foot each year.
  — Spike Carlsen, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2020
• Ivory comes from the elephant tusk, an incisor tooth that can grow to more than 10 feet.
  — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2017
• To the right of her navel, there were two pairs of ugly red puncture holes: incisors.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2018
• Spook had hair growing up the back of his neck and one incisor set edgewise.
  — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• That corn was true corn — starchy, white, each kernel as big as an adult incisor.
  — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2022
• Like T. rex, Razana also had some chisel-like incisor teeth in the front that could be used to scrape meat from bones.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 July 2017
• So the owner tried to help, by attempting to saw the painful top off the offending incisor.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 2 July 2018
• Some have wide-set, piercing incisors for ripping apart all kinds of bloody chow.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2017
• The skull is massive and broad overall and the incisor count is reduced to two uppers and one lower per side.
  — Darren Naish, Scientific American Blog Network, 3 June 2017
• Romania's Maria Marinela Mazilu has, in the part of her helmet that covers her mouth, triple-sized red lips, two fangs for incisors.
  — Chico Harlan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Elephant tusks are enlarged incisor teeth that show up around the age of two and continue to grow throughout the elephant’s life span of 60 to 70 years.
  — Daryl Brown, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• In mammals, these genes code for the development of incisor teeth.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
• Like all rodents, woodchucks have enlarged upper and lower incisor teeth in the front of their mouths.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2022
• The team also noticed those with thin femurs also had one incisor tooth.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2022
• In their own section of the Waystar Venn diagram, Tom and Shiv are having a lovely time flirting with their incisors.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 1 May 2023
• These elongated incisor teeth are so strong that their wielders often use them to wrestle and fling each other to the ground.
  — Sasha Mushegian, Smithsonian, 10 May 2017
• The Sports Illustrated model's front incisor tooth appeared to take the brunt of the collision with her 23-month-old son Isaac's head.
  — Tristan Balagtas, PEOPLE.com, 8 Dec. 2021
• And if their incisors grow too long, the animals can fatally impale their lower jaw, the NWF said.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
• The creatures have tusk-like incisors, visible in the new photographs of the animals.
  — National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2019
• At 5 weeks, the young western lowland gorilla was seen to have two lower incisors.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
• One lab tested the ratio of uranium to thorium in two of Misliya-1’s incisors.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2018
• And if the bear didn’t show its upper incisors, their playmate returned an incisor-less expression 72 percent of the time.
  — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2019
• So scarily does the Keaton smile flash on and off, with a sudden baring of incisors, that his entire career seems to have prepared him to play a man named Kroc.
  — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2017
• The first incisor, so to speak, was a special-use district that the Planning Department added to the commercial corridor in 2014.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, SFChronicle.com, 15 June 2018
• Nothing like grazing a little too roughly with your incisors to ruin the party.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 22 Dec. 2017
• Tooth #25 is a mandibular central incisor, a bottom center tooth.
  — Michelle Madden, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
• Dwight Powell didn’t hesitate to show off his middle right incisor.
  — Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2022
• While these incisors make for formidable weapons against those who get too close, capybara are a favorite meal for caimans, jaguars, and anacondas.
  — National Geographic, 9 June 2016
• The animal was missing another tooth, and the researchers believe that the earlier loss of that upper incisor caused the tooth next to it to malerupt and likely interfere with chewing.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2018

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024