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

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