Example Sentences

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“Nunca imaginei uma situação assim”, disse Íris, enquanto o aparelho dos seus dentes brilhava e ela tentava acalmar Alícia com um de seus únicos métodos bem-sucedidos: tocar repetidamente um desenho animado musical no seu celular.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2017

Nam cum summos atque imos conjunctim dentes suprema sua parte pulsaverit d litteram exprimit.

From The Roman Pronunciation of Latin Why we use it and how to use it by Lord, Frances Ellen

To obviate the objection that these are all the bodies of children, it is affirmed that the skulls are found to have possessed the dentes sapienti� and must have belonged to persons of mature age.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Murfree, Mary Noailles

Quod petiere, premunt arcte, faciuntque dolorem           Corporis, et dentes inlidunt saepe labellis .

From The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 11 by Cotton, Charles

Foeminæ in hoc regno portant plusquam centum tricas, et habent duos dentes in ore ita longos sicut apri.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Hakluyt, Richard