eyetooth

Example Sentences

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A snob, a bully and a coarser man than his creator seems to believe, Brad has a Southernness as sensitive as an aching eyetooth.

From Time Magazine Archive

"For every Greenfield, there are literally scores of other communities who would give their eyetooth for a Wal-Mart store," says Wal-Mart spokesman Don Shinkle.

From Time Magazine Archive

British Foreign Secretary Ernie Bevin, winding up talks in Washington this week, was leaving behind a personal memento: his lower eyetooth, yanked a fortnight ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

Having practiced many times before a mirror, he did not think that any possible watcher would have noticed how his thumb slipped briefly inside his mouth to give one eyetooth a slight twist.

From The Wedge by Fyfe, Horace Brown

Casey had a pronounced limp and an eyetooth was broken short off, about halfway to the gums, and his lip was cut.

From Casey Ryan by Bower, B. M.