How to Use toothed in a Sentence

toothed

adjective

• Tonight: Go over the fine print with a fine-toothed comb.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2020
• The glossy toothed leaves are dark green with a bluish caste, and the berries are bright red.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 19 Oct. 2022
• The latest batch of sweet-toothed hopefuls head to the tent Sept. 24.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• The leaves can also be shiny or dull and the edges of the leaves may be smooth or toothed.
  — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 4 June 2018
• Use the same fine toothed saw to make a series of cuts across one side of one of the points.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2022
• Chenoweth is forty, with a spiky hairdo and a gap-toothed smile.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
• Its toothed leaves and stems are covered in thin hairs that cause the stinging.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2021
• Amis’s saw-toothed sentences seized me by the scruff and carried me off for good.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2020
• Berlant leaped onto the stage, curls bouncing, and flashed a bright, straight-toothed smile.
  — Lizzie Feidelson, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2022
• Jaber is fifty-one, with a gap-toothed smile and a direct manner.
  — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The orange-toothed rodents can give birth to litters of up to 12.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2019
• In eastern China, the Langya virus may have jumped from the white-toothed shrew to humans.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
• The caper was captured on cellphone video, but the sweet-toothed thief got away.
  — Sun Sentinel Staff, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 June 2018
• Both royals have the same sandy blonde hair—with a similar hair cut—and the same buck-toothed smile.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 22 July 2022
• An enormous cast of the sharp-toothed jaw of a megalodon gapes open, wide and high enough to gobble a grown man.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 3 July 2019
• Dire wolves, which died out with mammoths and saber-toothed cats at the end of the last ice age, were long thought to be close cousins of gray wolves.
  — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 13 Jan. 2021
• Baleen whales have two openings in their blowhole, while toothed whales have one.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• The black round fish with a spiky-toothed lower jaw washed up at Swami’s Beach in Encinitas.
  — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• The plant grows 8-16 inches tall with three to five upright stems, each bearing three to five toothed leaflets.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Dec. 2022
• Pay no attention to any tough-guy vibe in photos of him; do not be alarmed by the sharp-toothed cat on the back of his head.
  — New York Times, 9 Jan. 2020
• But the edges were stone in a saw-toothed pattern that would have made climbing in and out very difficult.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 26 May 2018
• For hair with more knots, spray liberally and use a wide-toothed comb.
  — Chris Hachey, BGR, 18 May 2021
• Blot the hair with a towel, then use a wide-toothed comb or a detangling brush to gently brush through it.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 28 June 2019
• Sperm whales: Unlike gray, blue, humpback and fin whales, sperm whales have teeth and are known as the world’s largest toothed predator.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• Sperm whales are the largest of the toothed whales and have one of the widest global distributions of any marine mammal species.
  — al, 23 Nov. 2020
• When the cups are entirely gone, the mule starts to get a noticeable overbite—buck-toothed.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
• To the right the sculptural sweep of snow and ice was interrupted by sharp-toothed mountains like black cutouts against a turquoise sky.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Oct. 2020
• Details were slim about this photoshoot, but the youngster looked adorable in his camo-print shirt with a gap-toothed smile.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 22 Apr. 2022
• Woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers had not yet gone extinct.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
• Dead or dying lice, again, can be removed with a fine-toothed comb of your fingernails.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 24 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024