How to Use incisor in a Sentence

incisor

noun
  • The front incisor teeth of squirrels grow half a foot each year.
    — Spike Carlsen, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2020
  • That corn was true corn — starchy, white, each kernel as big as an adult incisor.
    — Minerva Orduño Rincón, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2022
  • Spook had hair growing up the back of his neck and one incisor set edgewise.
    — Thomas McGuane, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Ivory comes from the elephant tusk, an incisor tooth that can grow to more than 10 feet.
    — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2017
  • Their upper and lower incisors can grow about a sixteenth of an inch each week.
    — Kate Perez, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Their upper and lower incisors can grow about a sixteenth of an inch each week.
    — USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2024
  • His incisors were pointed, and one of his upper teeth was enameled in gold.
    — Graydon Carter, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The shot took out his top two incisors, wounded his face, and left him peppered with shrapnel.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 13 Apr. 2026
  • And sometimes a goy has Hebrew letters on the back of his incisors.
    — Indiewire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
  • The team also noticed those with thin femurs also had one incisor tooth.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The crew then floored the car, taking McGhehey's incisor with it.
    — Sezin Devi Koehler, Entertainment Weekly, 26 June 2026
  • In mammals, these genes code for the development of incisor teeth.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
  • So the owner tried to help, by attempting to saw the painful top off the offending incisor.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 2 July 2018
  • The skull is massive and broad overall and the incisor count is reduced to two uppers and one lower per side.
    — Darren Naish, Scientific American Blog Network, 3 June 2017
  • Like all rodents, woodchucks have enlarged upper and lower incisor teeth in the front of their mouths.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Dwight Powell didn’t hesitate to show off his middle right incisor.
    — Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • At 5 weeks, the young western lowland gorilla was seen to have two lower incisors.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 8 June 2018
  • And one top incisor, covered in a silver cap, hangs over her bottom lip, giving her a snaggletooth.
    — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Nothing like grazing a little too roughly with your incisors to ruin the party.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 22 Dec. 2017
  • These included back teeth, such as molars and premolars, as well as more frontal incisors and canines.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, ArsTechnica, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Tooth #25 is a mandibular central incisor, a bottom center tooth.
    — Michelle Madden, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The creatures have tusk-like incisors, visible in the new photographs of the animals.
    — National Geographic, 11 Nov. 2019
  • Instead of sweetening it, the relatives clamped a sugar cube between their incisors and loudly sucked the tea through it.
    — Literary Hub, 20 Jan. 2026
  • While these incisors make for formidable weapons against those who get too close, capybara are a favorite meal for caimans, jaguars, and anacondas.
    — National Geographic, 9 June 2016
  • One lab tested the ratio of uranium to thorium in two of Misliya-1’s incisors.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 25 Jan. 2018
  • And if the bear didn’t show its upper incisors, their playmate returned an incisor-less expression 72 percent of the time.
    — Amber Jorgenson, Discover Magazine, 21 Mar. 2019
  • Meanwhile, the inlay for a maxillary left central incisor was deeper into the dentin layer, but stopped short of the pulp chamber.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Elevating the area can also sharpen the contours of the philtrum and reveal a sliver of incisors when the lips are gently parted.
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 27 Jan. 2026
  • From their elaborate burrows to their continuously growing incisors, there’s much to learn about these little fluff balls.
    — Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Romania's Maria Marinela Mazilu has, in the part of her helmet that covers her mouth, triple-sized red lips, two fangs for incisors.
    — Chico Harlan, chicagotribune.com, 16 Feb. 2018

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