How to Use root canal in a Sentence

root canal

noun

• I need to have a root canal.
• Records show the root canal appointment was in May 2018.
  — Kristi Belcamino, Twin Cities, 10 July 2019
• Working root canals by day, working the back four by night.
  — Norman Chad, San Antonio Express-News, 11 June 2018
• That would be worse than watching the Pistons for a year with root canal Reggie.
  — Andrew Sharp and Ben Golliver, SI.com, 23 Sep. 2019
• Pucklis got the appointment and he was scheduled for the root canal.
  — Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 12 Aug. 2020
• Tip the endodontist both before and after the root canal.
  — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
• But as anyone who’s had to get a root canal can tell you, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
  — Zahra Barnes, SELF, 5 Apr. 2018
• Fresh fillings can help prevent tooth decay and loss — and, down the road, root canals and implants.
  — Abbie Kozolchyk, Good Housekeeping, 7 Jan. 2011
• This will need to be fixed, and when she is settled at the sanctuary, our vets will perform a root canal.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2022
• This is the least relaxing thing on the planet, other than getting a root canal.
  — Marie Claire, 7 Mar. 2014
• The top dental terms searched were root canal, crown, implant, orthodontic, and bridge.
  — Robin Gelburd, STAT, 12 June 2018
• Even so, like a hip or even a root canal, the new joints have a lifetime of only up to about 20 years before they must be replaced again.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2020
• Treatment can range from draining the abscess to a root canal to having the affected tooth pulled.
  — Lisa Mulcahy, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• Michael Griesmer said the preschooler needed root canals — seven of them.
  — Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2020
• In an attempt to distract Stone during the root canal, her dentist talked all about her work in prisons.
  — Vulture, 11 Nov. 2023
• Reading the headlines in Washington these days is about as fun as getting a root canal.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 29 July 2018
• The four games leading into Sunday felt like watching your own root canal, from the dentist’s chair.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2021
• When decay reaches the pulp, dentists perform a root canal.
  — David Cox /, NBC News, 15 Jan. 2018
• For her 24th birthday, Jacqueline Alvarado got three teeth pulled and a root canal.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• But most of those root canals will come at the hands of Wright-Foreman, who seemingly gets better with every game.
  — Jeremy Fuchs, SI.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• The second lioness, however, seems to have an open root canal in one tooth.
  — National Geographic, 7 Apr. 2017
• And watching many of them cut their teeth this season has been comparable to root canal.
  — Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• Lillian Velazquez has now gotten the root canal that was denied for nearly five years.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• The other 40 percent would rather have a root canal than suppress a good five-card major, which might lead to a silly contract.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 15 Sep. 2019
• There are two kinds of people on this Earth: those who view the bathhouse as a place to charge their human battery and those who would rather have a root canal than bathe among strangers.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 22 Mar. 2022
• But since the event began, their services have expanded to doing root canals, crowns and dentures.
  — Ethan Schmidt, azcentral, 13 Dec. 2019
• This can also escalate into bigger problems, like the need for root canals and crowns, or tooth loss.
  — Advertorial, Orange County Register, 5 Jan. 2024
• Should Koval have chosen to delay treatment and risk a root canal—or worse, a tooth extraction?
  — Jill U. Adams, Scientific American, 2 July 2020
• The polls show that many Americans perceive this contest with the distress reserved for root canals or colonoscopies.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Biden also had a basal cell carcinoma skin lesion removed in March, and a root canal procedure in June.
  — Molly Bohannon, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024