6 sentences with 'tooth'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tooth and other words derived from it.
• « In ancient India and pre-Columbian America it was held, as in Mesopotamia, that tooth decay was caused by a sinister worm nesting in man's teeth. »
• « One day in the gully I found a white stone the size of a silver dollar, with tiny bumps on it - a shark's tooth, I thought. I sent it to a museum, and a month later a box appeared in my mailbox. Inside the thin onion paper wrapper were these magical words: "Distal end of the metapodial bone of a prehistoric camel". It was part of the leg bone of a camel. »
• « In the 1960s, the biologists defended tooth and nail that it was all about genetic transmission, an unalterable code that was indispensable for mental excellence. The culturalists, on the other hand, were entrenched in the fact that geniuses are rarely the offspring of equally brilliant people, and therefore argued that brainpower can be developed with a favourable environment and good will. »