How to Use toothy in a Sentence

toothy

adjective

• Filling the screen, with a wide, toothy smile, was the face of a teenage boy.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2021
• The staves of a barrel, whose hoops had burst, fanned in a toothy grin.
  — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
• The wild rice provides some heft and a toothy bite, and the vinaigrette unites it all.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2021
• The toothy clamp was strong but didn’t damage my straw hat at all.
  — Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2024
• And then good old Hickey shows up, with his toothy smile and goofy jokes.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• The neon red race car with its big bright eyes and toothy smile is no slouch either.
  — Judi Dash, Philly.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• The Age of Dinosaurs wasn’t just a heyday of spiky and toothy giants.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• As prey approach, the fish readies its wide and toothy jaws for a quick bite.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2022
• The Nike headband and the toothy grin were bad news for defenders.
  — SI.com, 10 July 2019
• The fourth-year safety instead pulled down his mask and flashed a toothy smile.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 18 Oct. 2021
• Bias walked off the court with a toothy grin brightening his face.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• This isn’t the first time a toothy fish has caught the public’s attention.
  — Michael Hollan, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2021
• In the meantime, Roberts got some electrical tape and wrapped it around the gator’s toothy snout.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2024
• The Matthew image, which went viral, showed the storm as a smiling, toothy skull.
  — Brett Clarkson, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• But the Prince Harry wax figure’s toothy smile is old news now.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 9 May 2018
• My daughter turned to me with a toothy grin and a light in her eyes that could not be dimmed by matters of the adult world.
  — Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Nov. 2023
• The animal boasts 486 legs and a toothy, Predator-style head.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2023
• When Rosé points out the lipstick on Lisa’s teeth, the latter grins back with an extra-toothy smile.
  — Haeryun Kang, Rolling Stone, 23 May 2022
• However, there were once many more of the toothy predators.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 19 June 2021
• The mouth is stretched into a gleeful, toothy grin, toeing the line between cheer and evil.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• Her eyes widen, her mouth stretching into a toothy grin.
  — Julie Kosin, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Apr. 2019
• That toothy grin with messy hair had broken English hearts.
  — SI.com, 21 June 2018
• The image, captured by the Duchess in Norfolk, features the young prince showing off a toothy grin.
  — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 22 July 2021
• All told, the density of toothy, hairy, wild predators in the Badger State is among the highest in the nation.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 June 2018
• The toothy horror that lay dead on the bar across from us might well have eaten one of their grandmothers.
  — Warren Page, Field & Stream, 13 Nov. 2020
• Many savored the fact that West was in a jovial mood, cracking a toothy smile on occasion.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 1 June 2018
• Now the peanut’s toothy grin, a nod to Carter’s famously wide smile, needed a polish.
  — Mary Jordan, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2023
• The burden of walking in the heat that crumpled their faces seems to vanish, lost to toothy smiles and wide, shining eyes.
  — Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2021
• In the hot late-May sun, the only thing sunnier in Camden Yards than the dogs’ toothy grins were those of the players holding them.
  — Katherine Fominykh, baltimoresun.com, 30 May 2018
• De Jong’s painterly at the style at the time was CoBrA-like, with paintings cramped with toothy, monstrous figures jostling in space.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 1 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024