Example Sentences

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But maybe it’s time to stop separating ourselves from the chaos that is ecology, and instead embrace something disorderly, bold, and revolutionary—something, dare I say, bucktoothed.

From Slate • Aug. 31, 2023

These bucktoothed, wrinkly rodents can live for up to 31 years, a life span longer than that of several much larger mammals such as wolves and bighorn sheep.

From Scientific American • Jan. 31, 2023

He always looks so nice, Pete Buttigieg — handsome in that white, Midwestern, college yearbook way, with a smile that seems bucktoothed but isn’t and those perfectly, and apparently naturally, arched eyebrows.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2020

He plays Dug, a bucktoothed cave-kid who spearheads a stone age tribe’s contest with a more sophisticated bronze age civilisation through the medium of football.

From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2019

His slightly bucktoothed grin projected an easy self-confidence; the round spectacles he wore from his schooldays gave him a professorial air even then.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik