eyetooth

Example Sentences

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The regiment earned renown for leading thousands of men in the July 18, 1863, storming of Fort Wagner, an eyetooth in the jaw of defenses around Charleston Harbor.

From Washington Post

I remind them that their grandparents would have given their eyeteeth for the vaccines they blithely shrug off.

From New York Times

It was a fitting image for the way Junchang lived—both whimsical and up to his eyeteeth in work.

From Scientific American

“That boost in the memory system is something that many of us in neuroscience would give our eyeteeth to achieve,” he said.

From New York Times

Others called him Dracula, in reference to his prominent eyeteeth, or Comrade Leung, for his loyalty to the Communist Party.

From Washington Post