How to Use toothache in a Sentence

toothache

noun
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  • Dig up the root of a toothache plant, pop it in your mouth and chew.
    — Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • He’s got a bad toothache now and won’t take painkillers for it.
    — oregonlive, 25 June 2021
  • Your toothache could be caused by a crack or a break in a tooth.
    — Rachel Swalin, Health, 3 Feb. 2023
  • It can be used to treat toothaches, clean wounds, and clean your house.
    — Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Headaches and toothache came at the start, while problems with your feet were at the end.
    — Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Right now, the curling seed heads of toothache grass are waving above the fray.
    — Ben Raines, AL.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • In 2012, one of the twins, Roderick Burton, went out to buy some Advil for a toothache.
    — CBS News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • It was prescribed for toothaches, skin conditions, and the plague.
    — Wired, 18 Sep. 2019
  • But about that mug: LJ, as his people sometimes call him, got a toothache.
    — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Since singer Kris Truelsen’s lover left him, he’s endured a toothache, a hole in his shoe, and a dog that ran away.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Think of those vintage ads for cocaine toothache drops.
    — Zachary Siegel, The New Republic, 15 Mar. 2021
  • One person told me of their constant complaints of a toothache that went unanswered.
    — Denise S. Maes, The Denver Post, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Spain is one of the few European countries that prescribes the drug for mild pain, such as toothaches or muscle spasms.
    — Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Several apartments up, a boy with a bad toothache is waiting for the dentist.
    — New York Times, 18 Jan. 2022
  • As a result, the person delays making an appointment, and the toothache gets worse.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • An ever-present toothache serves as a fitting metaphor for his troubled conscience.
    — John McMurtrie, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
  • The problem with most pecan pie recipes is their toothache-inducing level of sweetness.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Also, a warthog learns how to get vaccinated and a gorilla with a toothache has surgery.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2021
  • Now it can be maladapted, making FOMO feel like a toothache.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • There’s Tchaikovsky’s joyful score, the adorableness of wee little Clara, the toothache-inducing sets—but beyond the stage, there’s the audience.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Penny, a 3-year-old sorrel mare with a white blaze, had been slobbering her feed and fighting her bit, signs of a likely toothache.
    — Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Historically, it was used by Native Americans as a painkiller and a cure for toothache, coughs, colds, sore throats and snake bite.
    — Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2019
  • There remain too many moments that are cloying and saccharine enough to induce toothache.
    — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2018
  • It was filled with bits of ephemera — factoids and poems and old-time remedies for toothache, for example — rendered in a neo-nostalgic style all their own.
    — New York Times, 1 Aug. 2021
  • In Olson's case, she was prescribed medication for a toothache.
    — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2017
  • Humans have been using castoreum for more than 2,000 years, mostly to cure ailments like headaches, earaches, toothaches, fevers and gout.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • More medieval whimsy is carved into the capitals: One man has a toothache, another pulls a thorn from his foot, and a farmer clobbers a thief so hard his hat falls off.
    — Rick Steves' Europe, The Seattle Times, 22 Aug. 2017
  • To take an analogy, consider a person who has a toothache but is afraid to visit the dentist in order to get a cavity filled.
    — Hersh Shefrin, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Adding to the despair, like a Monday morning toothache, Bill Plaschke piles on with a theme stolen from the vile, pernicious, obsessed and deranged deplorables, a mindless taunt with a lack of vision.
    — Los Angeles Times, latimes.com, 5 May 2017
  • Children's Advil is most commonly used to reduce fever and relieve minor aches and pains from conditions like the common cold, flu, sore throat, headaches, and toothaches.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 28 Aug. 2018

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