dentals
- plural of dental.
Example Sentences
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Of what available value reputation, unless wedded to power, dentals, or place?
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman
Young children habitually confuse dentals and palatals, thus a child may be heard to say that he has "dot a told."
From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest
He then asked me to pick out the vowels, the consonants, the flats, the sharps, the aspirates, the labials, the palatals, the dentals, and the mutes.
From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.
The strong curve of the back, the dentals and dots, and the muzzle and mouth refer apparently to the same creature.
From Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 by Holmes, William Henry
I would not voluntarily be under his manifold rows of dentals.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
