eyetooth

Example Sentences

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"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

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

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

But he also knew that when a dog lowers his head and growls, showing his eyetooth, he means business.

From His Dog by Terhune, Albert Payson