toothed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The inspectors also reported crews spraying contaminated pool water onto neighboring properties and into storm drains, and excavator operators using toothed buckets that caused clean and contaminated soil to be commingled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2025
New research suggests that the collections of fatty tissue that enable toothed whales to do so may have evolved from their skull muscles and bone marrow.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024
During opening weekend on March 16, the museum was a hive of freckles and gap toothed grins, with visitors ranging in age from newborn to well seasoned.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
As the study authors explain, baleen whales and their toothed whale cousins could not survive with the larynxes from their land mammal ancestors.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024
I didn't have a good answer to that, and instead toothed my bottom lip to keep it from quivering.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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