How to Use toothache in a Sentence

toothache

noun

• Dig up the root of a toothache plant, pop it in your mouth and chew.
  — Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• He’s got a bad toothache now and won’t take painkillers for it.
  — oregonlive, 25 June 2021
• Your toothache could be caused by a crack or a break in a tooth.
  — Rachel Swalin, Health, 3 Feb. 2023
• It can be used to treat toothaches, clean wounds, and clean your house.
  — Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2018
• Headaches and toothache came at the start, while problems with your feet were at the end.
  — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2021
• Right now, the curling seed heads of toothache grass are waving above the fray.
  — Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• In 2012, one of the twins, Roderick Burton, went out to buy some Advil for a toothache.
  — CBS News, 29 Aug. 2021
• It was prescribed for toothaches, skin conditions, and the plague.
  — Wired, 18 Sep. 2019
• But about that mug: LJ, as his people sometimes call him, got a toothache.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
• Since singer Kris Truelsen’s lover left him, he’s endured a toothache, a hole in his shoe, and a dog that ran away.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2021
• Think of those vintage ads for cocaine toothache drops.
  — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2021
• Cue the scene in which Kong figures out what to do about his giant toothache, for example.
  — USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
• One person told me of their constant complaints of a toothache that went unanswered.
  — Denise S. Maes, The Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2019
• Spain is one of the few European countries that prescribes the drug for mild pain, such as toothaches or muscle spasms.
  — Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
• The poor guy is also suffering from a toothache, which is about to become a major plot point.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
• Several apartments up, a boy with a bad toothache is waiting for the dentist.
  — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
• As a result, the person delays making an appointment, and the toothache gets worse.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• An ever-present toothache serves as a fitting metaphor for his troubled conscience.
  — John McMurtrie, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
• The problem with most pecan pie recipes is their toothache-inducing level of sweetness.
  — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
• Also, a warthog learns how to get vaccinated and a gorilla with a toothache has surgery.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2021
• Now it can be maladapted, making FOMO feel like a toothache.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
• There’s Tchaikovsky’s joyful score, the adorableness of wee little Clara, the toothache-inducing sets—but beyond the stage, there’s the audience.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2020
• Penny, a 3-year-old sorrel mare with a white blaze, had been slobbering her feed and fighting her bit, signs of a likely toothache.
  — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• Historically, it was used by Native Americans as a painkiller and a cure for toothache, coughs, colds, sore throats and snake bite.
  — Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2019
• There remain too many moments that are cloying and saccharine enough to induce toothache.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
• It was filled with bits of ephemera — factoids and poems and old-time remedies for toothache, for example — rendered in a neo-nostalgic style all their own.
  — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
• In Olson's case, she was prescribed medication for a toothache.
  — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2017
• Humans have been using castoreum for more than 2,000 years, mostly to cure ailments like headaches, earaches, toothaches, fevers and gout.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• More medieval whimsy is carved into the capitals: One man has a toothache, another pulls a thorn from his foot, and a farmer clobbers a thief so hard his hat falls off.
  — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2017
• To take an analogy, consider a person who has a toothache but is afraid to visit the dentist in order to get a cavity filled.
  — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Dec 2024