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
• And one top incisor, covered in a silver cap, hangs over her bottom lip, giving her a snaggletooth.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024