How to Use molar in a Sentence

molar

noun

• But the team has not yet tried to extract ancient DNA or proteins from the skull or molar to test that idea.
  — Ann Gibbons, Science | AAAS, 25 June 2021
• Wisdom teeth, known as third molars, are the last teeth to develop and appear in the mouth.
  — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 8 Nov. 2023
• He was hit so hard by a stuntman while filming a scene for a movie that two crowns popped loose from his molars.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• Your kid’s milk teeth: the cost of playing the tooth fairy (ten dollars for the first tooth, five dollars for teeth two to four and molars, two dollars for the rest).
  — Francesca Carington, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• The spots typically show up on the insides of the cheeks near the molars about two to three days after symptoms start.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024
• The mammoth’s jawbone, containing molars the size of a man’s shoe, was collected at the same site.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• Within a couple of days of being home, Roland was chewing something and spat out most of a molar.
  — Hazlitt, 1 Feb. 2023
• Manatee teeth are all molars, between six to eight on each side, top and bottom.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
• All these mammals would have feared the triisodontids, the terrors of the Paleocene, which looked like wolves on steroids and smashed the bones of their prey with crushing molars.
  — Steve Brusatte, Scientific American, 1 June 2022
• In this case, the detritus is part of a human jawbone, with a single molar and a bit of tissue still attached.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2022
• Top ten picksRise of the Denisovians – Carl Zimmer on the new group of ancient humans, identified through a pinky and a molar.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 25 Dec. 2010
• And, at least to this point, scientists haven’t been able to recover any DNA that could make the molar’s origin certain.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2023
• The authors plan to continue searching the cave in Laos for more fossils and hope to extract DNA from the molar to confirm its owner.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 May 2022
• The tool that dug into my rearmost molar’s pulp chamber shook my jaw with a percussive chug.
  — Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2021
• In rare moments of levity, his eyes crinkled and his smile revealed a gold molar.
  — Robert Moor, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• Half his face was swollen, a throbbing molar was festering, the pain was unbearable.
  — Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022
• To do that, though, the sheep will regurgitate the plant matter and grind it up with its back molars — similar to how the sheepshead fish uses its back teeth to grind up shells.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2023
• One of the Belgians present, Gerard Soete, brought home Lumumba’s molars and a finger as trophies.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• And two of my molars had been pulled (one accidentally).
  — Town & Country, 17 Aug. 2023
• However the discovery of the tooth, a molar, in Laos is the first time Denisovans have been found in Southeast Asia, and provides a link to the modern humans who live in the area today.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
• This signals that no remnants of the molar pregnancy remain.
  — ​wendy Wisner, Parents, 15 Sep. 2023
• Instead of molar-cracking croutons, the lettuce is speckled with breadcrumbs, ensuring a bit of crunch with each bite.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2022
• The team found mostly molars that measured about two-thirds the size of those belonging to a related species, Gypsonictops hypoconus.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
• The teeth were in good condition, and investigators could tell that the third molar had not yet erupted, which helped determine age.
  — oregonlive, 8 May 2023
• Their molars are used for eating plants, but their sharp canines, which might reach 20 inches (51 centimeters), are for defense and fighting.
  — Forrest Brown, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• Manatees grow new molars that slide forward like a conveyor belt to replace worn ones that, without the kind of deep roots that anchor human teeth, fall out on their own.
  — Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2023
• That said, not everything lurking between your molars is quite as benign.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Jan. 2024
• A lot of carnivorans retain molars behind the slicing pair that can grind up stuff such as vegetation.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2023
• Someone in the medical field arranged for Jaci to end her partial molar pregnancy at a clinic in Kansas.
  — Stephanie Emma Pfeffer, Peoplemag, 4 May 2023
• McRae seemed to be a big, aggressive, silver-haired Southerner, above six feet in height, with enormous shoulders, hands about the size of my head, and a broad smile that revealed a hollow space of molars gone from lack of care.
  — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 1 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024