Example Sentences

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Their effectiveness in the Mojave — a vast arid empire of wiry creosote, dry lakes, sand dunes, lava flows and snaggle-toothed peaks — remains to be seen.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021

Video courtesy of Peter Waydo, NASA/JPL-Caltech Of course, these are professional scientists and engineers, so don’t be discouraged by your own orange, snaggle-toothed creation.

From The Verge • Oct. 31, 2017

He read women really beautifully, which I always found strange for someone as snaggle-toothed as he was.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2017

The chorus is a roaring reckoning, a brick wall being smashed, with thundering piano chords, booming drums, snaggle-toothed electric guitar and an agonizing, wordless wail from Amos.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2017

“Because I’m hairy, ugly, dirty, stooped, snaggle-toothed, and gray. And also I feel sick from the radiation; I think I’m going to die.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick