toothache
IPA: tˈuθʌʃˈeɪ
noun
- (medicine) A pain or ache in a tooth.
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Examples of "toothache" in Sentences
- "In this case, the toothache is a total loss of privacy."
- Weariness is the best friend of labor, just as the toothache is the best friend of sound teeth.
- (The toothache was the only malady to which Tom had ever been subject.) "Euclid, my lad; why, what's that?" said Mr. Tulliver.
- He was so fearful of losing his new-found facility that he practiced for the rest of that day, and lay down at night with what he called the toothache in every muscle.
- She also told expectant mothers that a toothache is a frequent sign of pregnancy, and that they should expect to loose one tooth for every child they bring into the world.
- I recall a toothache that once aggravated me enough to consider pliers tempting, but there's no indication that Balderston was suffering from serious pain or acute symptoms.
- Dexter had just left off at the end of a line, and finished the first letters of the word toothache, leaving "toot" as his division, and taking a fresh dip of ink ready for writing "hache."
- When we have gone to sleep with a maddening toothache and are conscious of it only as a little girl whom we attempt, time after time, to pull out of the water, or as a line of Molière which we repeat incessantly to ourselves, it is a great relief to wake up, so that our intelligence can disentangle the idea of toothache from any artificial semblance of heroism or rhythmic cadence.
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