How To Use Toothless In A Sentence

The old man smiled to reveal toothless gums.
The reason to do it now is preventive to try and avoid a toothless old age for her.
Apparently facultatively bipedal, with a toothless bird-like skull sporting large orbits, dinosaur-like cervical vertebrae possessing true pneumatic foramina, and reduced gracile forelimbs and a theropod-like pelvis, Effigia is strikingly like ornithomimosaurs (ostrich dinosaurs) in several details, mostly those concerning the skull and cervical vertebrae. Archive 2006-01-01
Will the prosecution remain as toothless as it used to be at the times of Tatarchev, who kept talking of catching all bandits in a sack, but in reality none ever reached prison?
Gazing at their little arms, and their toothy (and sometimes toothless) grins, I wondered what it would be like to be catapulted from a world where your opportunities in life were, on any social and economic index, likely to be pretty limited, to one I couldn't even dream of: one where you understand how the black dots on a page turn into something that lifts the human heart, and where the way you move horse hair over strings can make the soul soar. Christina Patterson: Why Our Children Should Reach for the Stars

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SNOW: Now, in addition to establishing a peace treaty, a former UNIFIL official says unless there is a clear mandate, there will be what he describes as a toothless U.N. peacekeeping force that will turn out only to be a disaster -- Wolf. CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006
The toothless regulator appears powerless to stop the alleged cartel of energy companies. Times, Sunday Times
The Duke was revelling in the occasion, his toothless mouth curved up in a great leer like the mask of comedy.
It is a toothless tiger. Times, Sunday Times
The reason to do it now is preventive to try and avoid a toothless old age for her.
He remembered the days when some of the old men, still alive, had been born; and, unlike him, they were now decrepit, shaken with palsy, blear-eyed, toothless of mouth, deaf of ear, or paralysed. CHAPTER XI
(on camera): An old (ph), toothless orange Persian with a dandriff problem. CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2002
A grungy man with an evil, nearly toothless grin crouched behind it.
His position has been carefully isolated as his various Lieutenants have, at last, been subjected to searching cross-examination instead of the toothless gumming meted out by the MSM over the years, something which has demonstrated the high standards of advocacy that are produced by our adversarial system of litigation, though, strictly speaking, an inquest is inquisitorial in nature. Archive 2008-02-10
But the agrements in place are 'toothless' they only snactions a nation can take against Japan are trade sanctions. Undefined
The toothless woman entered the hall of the king and grasped hold of Thor. The Gods of Asgard
Anyway, as the tumbril bearing Grant came into view, and we got shots of toothless crones in the crowd getting on with their knitting – or their modern equivalent, West Ham fans looking glum – the Hammers' latest signing, Wayne Bridge, was demonstrating that even a magic Chris Waddle cheque book might not provide an automatic solution to the club's troubles. Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner
An old object was Juguna: curly hair (resembling grey astrakhan), toothless gums, with the thick underlip projecting an inch or more, and long, slit-distorted ears, the lobes of which rested comfortably on his shoulders and carried on their points some heavy copper ornaments. The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna
It had large, owlish eyes; ears that were capable of facing backward or forward; a wide, toothless mouth that seemed to split its flattened, ovoidal skull almost in half; and a small, constantly wiggling proboscis. Lost And Found
Resultantly, the CBI has come out as merely a toothless, diseased paper tiger whose roar is more effective than its maul.
Meanwhile, their rather toothless union, typical of the Third World, cannot press for minimum wages or maximum hours.
In blennies the palatines are toothless, and the mouth not protractile.
As he is toothless he is seeking approval for a soft food diet but the medical unit have told him that he has to schedule a test, which may take months, to prove that he has no teeth.
Whenever Paul spoke, it was almost like the story of the toothless man able to eat rare steak.
But I suppose there's no denying that we learn from our mistakes, just as we learn from toothless, disease-ridden drifters.
Two bowed and toothless old almsmen then looked at each other and chuckled, innocently enough; but the sound had a strange weird effect in that place. Far from the Madding Crowd
She is enfeebled, dropsical, perpetually damp from cooking and cleaning, toothless, and refuses to wear false teeth (Janet remarks that Mother can never find comfortable teeth).
The opah, despite being toothless, and of majestic build, pursues and eats other fish and squid.
He told the BBC's File on Four that the new inspections are "absolutely shameful, because it reduces the inspectorate to a toothless paper tiger, where nobody is physically going in". Johann Hari: This Was My Grandmother. The Way She Was Treated in the Last Ten Years of Her Life Should Be A Scandal
He gave us a toothless grin.
Griffin is 32 and toothless and bone thin with wild dark eyes and a dark beard and fine, long black hair that he combs with fastidious care.
To chew ( food ) with toothless gums.
He agreed the days of the Australian Press Council, which he called a "toothless tiger", could be numbered The Australian | News |
Instead of making us toothless and fat, sugar could be used to reduce our oil reliance. The Times Literary Supplement
His face was grotesquely contorted into a toothless smile.
But critics say they are little more than a toothless watchdog, lacking the clout to change entrenched practices.
Six-month-old toothless Adi grins trustingly at the world.
But some species lacked the sharp teeth of meat-eaters, sporting instead blunt, peglike teeth or toothless beaks. Chicagotribune.com - News
Master is a toothless old man, grey hair lazily draping over his broad shoulders.
I enjoyed it FAR FAR more than AVATAR. alnst agree on the flying scene. it's impressive. and toothless is cute. Five Reasons Why You Should Go See How To Train Your Dragon THIS WEEKEND | /Film
Standing, she looked down at the pathetic, toothless creature at her feet.
And then the tire guy - a toothless old vet - goes off, and this is what it sounded like.
The film must be judged by the enormousness of the gap between this originary text and this pale, commercial, toothless, non-denominational cash-in. The Tooth Fairy (2010)
Three little girls ran to the door grinning toothless grins.
Also included in the mix are the two comic country bumpkins, stereotypical toothless hillbillies with their pipes, dilapidated hats, and cargo of farm livestock.
That toothless quote has inflicted great damage on the deeply unpopular president. Times, Sunday Times
Thereupon a cackling, toothless old maidservant set aside the tray she was carrying and hobbled across to confront him.
The usual plan is to hit town and grill the nearest toothless old codger or incorrigible oddball.
He forced his opponent to make a save with a sharp shot from a tight angle but, despite continuing to dominate possession, Shrewsbury remained toothless.
Because of her obnoxious attitude Chaucer makes her toothless, fat and large.
One such biologist is a Canadian, Johnstone, who identifies totally with the wolves, giving them names and ascribing a personality to each, feeding rabbits to the one that is too old and toothless to kill his own prey. Media
She gave the poor creature a kick, then smiled at me with toothless gums.
I happened to be driving by that low-rent trailer park about the time he claims he was out, and I saw a grossly obese, unshaven, unbathed, toothless slob in pee-stained Spiderman underoos and his favorite Bart Simpson T-shirt that his mom bought him 15 years ago for his 10th birthday. Think Progress » Maddow Corrects GOP Rep. Schock On Basic Facts Of Abdulmuttalab Case
Ultimately, however, the finished product is a notably unstylish cross between toothless naughtiness and almost school play-calibre theatricality. Times, Sunday Times
The baby was a tiny piece of heaven, always smiling his adorable toothless beam, and batting those long lashes as he reached out to touch everything.
So 300 years ago if I hadn't died of infection I'd be toothless by now.
And this caring for future generations must involve government, all industries, and the toothless EMA as well.
The SDLP's Mark Durkin denounced one quango as "faceless. toothless and spineless". Sketch: Quangos scorched as Buck Passing Council goes up in flames
Nevermind that McNuts 'campaign is the scuzziest I've ever seen, it is ill conceived, poorly executed and managed by a bunch of toothless reprobates. Obama And McCain Trade New Attack Ads
And his cauliflower ears, toothless grin and boneless nose are testimony to his unrelenting quest for simulated perfection.
A beer and a cigarette from a smirking, toothless porter ease the immediate pain, while jibes from my travelling companions put my huffs and puffs into perspective.
I saw him play more than once at Central Park in New York, his toothless mouth soulfully lisping his unique and beautiful song style.
Silent Murf was largely toothless, and the gaze from his eyes diverged in opposing directions; his skinny arms were a fancywork of jailhouse tattoos and what appeared to be scabbed-over claw marks. Hearts in Exurbia
Do not pass Go or collect 100 francs, go directly to the Bastille, where you will be decapitated by an angry mob of toothless old crones.
But a creature that is not oviparous is not, by definition, a bird, even if one were found that had feathers, had toothless beaks, and flew. The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause
Seat the delegates by all means but they must remain toothless – they broke the rules. Dean slams media coverage as he opens meeting
However, Chrysobraya differs from Lepidostemon in having cotyledons incumbent instead of accumbent and staminal filaments toothless and wingless instead of winged and toothed.
Middle-aged people, already in a state of despair about the fecklessness of the young, will find the activities of the grey and toothless equally distressing.
Garda watchdog body will be toothless says expert
In fact he would not be directly investigated by the Inquisition until 1815, when it was nearly toothless - and presumably so was he.
Beneath the projecting snout there is a small, toothless mouth with thick, sucking lips.
Unfussy defending from York and toothless tokens of attack from Southend - the corners mirrored sharply the pattern of the first 45 minutes.
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Appropriately enough, the plate's iconic force -- reminiscent of non-perspectival medieval representations -- grows out of the violent contrast between the "depthless" Gestalt of Los trapped "in dreamless night" and his gaze of catastrophic expectation (reinforced by the toothless, semingly disfigured mouth). Bringing About the Past
Dubbed Kryoryctes cadburyi - as in Cadbury chocolate - the dinosaur-era mammal was roughly the size of a large cat, covered with quills, and toothless.
He was bearded and probably toothless - for although his voice was resonant it was also oddly slurred. Times, Sunday Times
Appropriately enough, the plate's iconic force -- reminiscent of non-perspectival medieval representations -- grows out of the violent contrast between the "depthless" Gestalt of Los trapped "in dreamless night" and his gaze of catastrophic expectation (reinforced by the toothless, semingly disfigured mouth). Bringing About the Past
But for most of the match they were virtually toothless in attack. The Sun
Sophie had only recently discovered color, and the red splashes against the gray shiplap was enough to put a toothless smile on her little face. A Dirty Job HTML
The man who spoke, who called himself Jim, looked in his early 20's - late teens with a toothless grin and a black beanie.
What they have done is to make Legco toothless, " Ma said.
They've swiped the Hippocratic Oath: first, do no harm - and as a result their rhetoric and critiques are timorous and toothless.
A lack of composure in the rearguard spread through the team and while Swansea had looked for the most part toothless in attack their equaliser when it came was no more a surprise than it was deserved.
When the old, toothless man in the parking lot approaches me with outstretched hands and asks for a dime or a cigarette or snack, I look into his eyes.
Palace were poor at the back and toothless in attack. The Sun
A toothless display ensured Boston's nosedive continued. Times, Sunday Times
The confectioner was a toothless old hag, who mixed the ingredients in a wooden dish dirtier than anything I ever saw before, and filled with reindeer hairs, which, however, were not conspicuous when well mingled with the half-churned grass and moss. Schwatka's Search
I'm the last man on earth to suggest you should stay home and shovel squash into a toothless maw just because that's the thing you're supposed to do.
The old veck began to make sort of chumbling shooms - "wuf waf wof" - so Georgie let go of holding his goobers apart and just let him have one in the toothless rot with his ringy fist, and that made the old veck start moaning a lot then, then out comes the blood, my brothers, real beautiful. Where's the show?
a toothless old crone
If you see any withered, toothless, gimpy old men it gives you a good sign to run.] Or is that too graphics intensive at this time?
A beer and a cigarette from a smirking, toothless porter ease the immediate pain, while jibes from my travelling companions put my huffs and puffs into perspective.
Here are the legless, armless, eyeless and toothless; the polio-crippled, the mine-maimed, the buboed and leprous, the self-mutilated and the plain mad.
At each they paid their pennies and watched raptly, not noticing Thetis 's sadly tarnished scales or the toothless smile on the cobra. THE THORN BIRDS
a toothless piece of legislation
Anyway, what I am trying to say is they are a bunch of toothless wonders, incapable of creation and development, but proven at destruction - sectarian indeed.
So the clan bodies, village councils, and public assemblies were either dissolved or made toothless against the chiefs.
A wide, drooling toothless grin split his flat face, and two yellow-red reptilian eyes stared covetously from his immense head.
Wolpert wouldn't have been at all surprised by this, as he makes clear: the gruel of the toothless is an oddly moveable feast, and the older people get, the older they believe "old" to be. You're Looking Very Well by Lewis Wolpert – review
Aside from your horsey, toothless grin, your plain ugly mug, and your bald head, you're actually a decent-looking guy.
Testifying" this morning -- (if you can call prevaricating, lying, and posturing "testifying") -- to another toothless Beltway body called the "Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission" were the four horseman: Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, John Mack of Morgan Stanley, Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs. Joseph A. Palermo: Defiant Wall Street Welfare Kings Come to Washington
"Narcoterrorism" would be toothless if we in the US could find a more sensible way of dealing with the ever-present demand for "the narco."
Called their execs a toothless body full of people wearing ties with no clue about football. The Sun
And old men, on cool and balmy lanais, toothlessly maundered to her about THE KANAKA SURF
HPFacebookVoteV2. init (421688, 'Defiant Wall Street Welfare Kings Come to Washington', '\ "Testifying\" this morning -- (if you can call prevaricating, lying, and posturing \ "testifying\") -- to another toothless Beltway body called the \ "Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission\" were the four horseman: Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, John Mack of Morgan Stanley, Brian Moynihan of Bank of America, and Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs. Joseph A. Palermo: Defiant Wall Street Welfare Kings Come to Washington
There were three people ahead of me on line, and one old toothless guy who got on line behind me and immediately pulled out a container of yogurt and began eating.
As I got near to the avenue gate, instead of the school on my left there was a prison; and at the door a little thick-set jailer, three feet high and much deformed, and a little deformed jaileress no bigger than himself, were cunningly watching me out of the corners of their eyes, and toothlessly smiling. Peter Ibbetson
He keeps filming the milky-eyed and toothless bluehair as she bobs her head around, struggling to focus on who she's talking to.
Realizing what he had done, he forced his way through the front of the bus and ran off, with a sly, toothless grin on his face.
Living xenarthrans are represented by three morphologically distinct lineages: armored armadillos, toothless anteaters, and phyllophagous tree-sloths.
I saw him play more than once at Central Park in New York, his toothless mouth soulfully lisping his unique and beautiful song style.
Why even go through the motions when everyone with half a lick of sense understands that "nonbinding" means the legislation is nothing but a toothless, meaningless symbol? Congressional Dems Willing To "Compromise" On Iraq
His ugliness was embittered somewhat by sunken, toothless jaws and an enigmatical stare from a cross-eye; he was also knock-kneed, and as an erstwhile gunpowder worker, had lost two fingers and a large part of one ear. Across China on Foot
That would come as some surprise to all of those people who have been criticizing the CPRA as completely toothless, which is just about everybody. Archive 2006-06-01
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Pre-emptive war, toothless lawgivers, and corporate greed leave democracy in the hands of the people.
The document it produced was toothless, consisting of many pious hopes and a few unenforceable targets.
Applicable when possession is normative. e.g., blindness and sight, toothlessness and toothedness, hairiness and baldness. Archive 2009-04-01
I almost passed over her, cloaked in an old brown robe and deep in conversation with a toothless old peasant woman selling various herbs and balms.
They were totally toothless up front until the closing stages of the first half. The Sun
The toothless woman entered the hall of the king and grasped hold of Thor. The Gods of Asgard
Its armed forces are toothless, and its rhetoric is tired, repeated out of habit rather than conviction.
A fairly toothless attack and a leaky defence. The Sun
Yet City were totally toothless in attack. The Sun
This well-intentioned but toothless law will do nothing to improve the situation.
He says that the Commission has just remained a toothless body and has done nothing for the 25 crore strong minority communities in the country.
She gave us a toothless grin.
…The bone tasted of nothing and smelled of nothing, A scalded toothless harp, uncrushed, unstrung. Robert Pinsky's Poetry Strikes a Chord
Better buy a shotgun - I wouldn't count on the toothless old mutt.
For there are some creatures which from birth are without sight, or without teeth, but these are not called toothless or blind. Categories
The toothless woman entered the hall of the king and grasped hold of Thor. The Gods of Asgard
First described for a partial snout from the Brazilian Santana Formation, Tupuxuara longicristatus Kellner & Campos, 1988 is a toothless Cretaceous pterosaur with a rather long, subtriangular skull. Those sexy tupuxuarids
He gave us a toothless grin.
But the term is not only toothless and tiresome, it's just wrong.
The toothless regulator appears powerless to stop the alleged cartel of energy companies. Times, Sunday Times
Some enemies are imaginary; some are toothless.
A sound argument rendered toothless by his puerility. Times, Sunday Times
The inquiry is effectively powerless, and it is toothless.
His eternally friendly toothless grin is accentuated by wire-framed goggles, and his short-cropped head is uncovered.
That toothless quote has inflicted great damage on the deeply unpopular president. Times, Sunday Times
However, past experience has shown us that the standards board is nothing but a toothless watchdog which fails to make people answerable for their actions.
Battle Dog then proceeded to mop up, neutralizing the Scimitar's remaining weapon emplacements, rendering it a toothless predator.
most birds are toothless
Does the agency have the power to prosecute companies, or is it a toothless organization?
Of those groups only the higher Dicynodontia were to be successful, and in fact these stocky, toothless and beaked animals remained the dominant terrestrial herbivores right up until the Carnian epoch (Late Triassic period).
His own work on saw—a usually toothless but otherwise ordinary metal handsaw that issues otherworldly sounds when bowed—has graced the songs of the iconic indie rock band Neutral Milk Hotel. Singing Saw's Christmastime Tour
The hearing also highlighted partisan differences, as agents raised concerns about existing gun laws one called "toothless. Top Brass Cited in Gun Sting
My dear friend, Jack Tufthunt, for example, knows ONE Lord whom he met at a watering-place: old Lord Mumble, who is as toothless as a three-months-old baby, and as mum as an undertaker, and as dull as — well, we will not particularise. The Book of Snobs
St Johnstone, bottom of the table and toothless in front of goal, are looking to bring a couple of Ecuadorians to McDiarmid Park.
He gurns his face effortlessly into a toothless, gummy washerwoman's grimace.
In the earliest known post-Tapinocephalus Zone fauna of southern Africa (where the fossil record for late Permian tetrapods is most complete), new groups of big herbivores - the beaked and toothless dicynodonts - appear.
Beside her sat a yellow and wrinkled woman of forty-five, with a low neck, in a black headdress, with a toothless smile on her intently-preoccupied and empty face, and in the inner recesses of the box was visible an elderly man in a wide frock-coat and high cravat, with an expression of dull dignity and a kind of ingratiating distrustfulness in his little eyes, with dyed moustache and whiskers, a large meaningless forehead and wrinkled cheeks, by every sign a retired general. Chapter XII
Thereupon a cackling, toothless old maidservant set aside the tray she was carrying and hobbled across to confront him.
Solid elsewhere, their undoing was again a toothless attack, Stranraer maintain at least a hope of a stunning advance into the fourth round once the replay is negotiated in Leith.
He became old and toothless. Times, Sunday Times
A toothless old man came ambling up to them, pointing, with a rather wicked grin, at an old rowboat bobbing in the iron-gray water below them.
He manages to get the bill through in the most toothless possible form, knowing that it will help kick the props out from under segregation in years to come.
The toothless woman entered the hall of the king and grasped hold of Thor. The Gods of Asgard
In his view, the Commission remains a toothless and ineffectual body.
Obama proposed a miniscule budget freeze and a toothless budget commision which conveniently will wait until December to report! The Volokh Conspiracy » Just Wondering
As they sit on them, they sag into the floor like the collapsing faces of toothless old men. Times, Sunday Times
He pushed into the dry toothless mouth that constricted like the elastic cuff of a pajama sleeve.
His grandmother watched, her toothless mouth agape.
This trade body has a code of practice for members to adhere to, but it is a toothless watchdog with limited powers.
T-baggers: aka - irrational lily-white racists, tax-dodgers, homophobes, birthers, ignorant gun-loving reactionaries, toothless and obese fans of big insurance companies, and far-right religious wingnuts clinging to fairytales of humans and dinosaurs living together just outside Eden. Tea Party movement attempts to unite?
Its dentaries were toothless (and its maxillae probably were too). Archive 2006-07-01
Cork's attack was toothless that day and, in a game that was stuffy for long enough, Tipperary's eight-point victory was comprehensive.
As of Boxing Day, more than 100,000 people had signed up online for his campaign to fill India's jails with protestors who feel that a bill currently before Parliament will create a toothless ombudsman or lokpal in Hindi beholden to the very politicians it's meant to police. Delhi's Year of Drama and Stasis
Judge: But this programme is balm to millions, many of them toothless, gaga and slumped across a Zimmer frame.
The taste buds of the lake sturgeon protrude from the toothless mouth and are used to help in the selection of food.
It was a toothless old man who was chuckling loudly, withdrawing his hand - which only bore three fingers - and laying it on his sheathed sword.
With all their swats across the line, lack of application, mindless shot selection and containment-driven, nonthreatening bowling, it's tempting to characterize Bangladesh as a team that has been rendered toothless in the Test arena by the very different demands of Twenty20 cricket. Bangladesh's Promise Remains Unfulfilled
An almost toothless grin was plastered on his tan wrinkled face.
The groundsman smiles a slightly toothless grin. Times, Sunday Times
The eyeless, toothless brick building behind me gapes with awe at what it's become, at all who flagrantly disregard it. Coffee-Stained Fangs (excerpt)

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