How to Use dentist in a Sentence

dentist

noun
Definition of dentistnext
  • I saw her at the dentist last week.
  • He goes to the dentist's for a check-up every six months.
  • Kris gave me my doctor, my dentist, my kids’s school, the full lot.
    — ELLE, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Paula Pell is Gloria, who at least built a career as a dentist.
    — oregonlive, 5 May 2022
  • My dentist, family doctor and an ear, nose and throat doctor gave me no answers.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Hackers took breaks to visit the dentist, the chats show, and appeared to have human-resources staff.
    — Robert McMillan, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Or balance a work deadline around someone’s dentist appointment.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2022
  • Since cavities worsen without treatment, any sign of a cavity also prompts a call to your dentist.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 9 Oct. 2024
  • In his 40-plus years as a dentist with a full roster of patients, Roy Feifer kept most of his vacations relatively short.
    — Sarah Kuta, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Nor does staking your claim with sticks and four tin cans seem outlandish, a rotten outlaw posing as a dentist strike me as strange, or a group of miners giving out nicknames with abandon come across as odd.
    — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Soon, they were joined by the van Pels family and dentist Fritz Pfeffer, which brought the total number of people in the cramped space to eight.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
  • The town’s only dentist volunteered to treat a refugee with toothache free of charge, and the local church converted cottages used for a children’s camp into additional sleeping space for refugees.
    — Lauren Egan, NBC News, 15 Apr. 2022
  • It’s a clean, clear road that runs back and forth between the dusty servers sitting in the offices of doctor and dentist offices, various electronic health records and across apps used by other public and private companies.
    — Katie Jennings, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • In one case, a wallet was cut from the trousers of a dentist killed in the blast.
    — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Rasel Syed, 44, a chef, lives across the street from an NHS dentist.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • Tongue scrapers are a great way to clean the mouth, dentists say.
    — Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Raynor, now a dentist in town, took over the team for the season when Pires was unable to coach.
    — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2023
  • After Noori set up one man with a dentist, the man placed his hand over his heart and bowed.
    — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The latter is a dentist, has a three-year-old son and is about to give birth to her second child.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Talk to a dentist about what teeth-whitening products are safe and how to use them.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Went to the dentist but found out my cleaning wasn’t covered.
    — Amy Wagner and Steve Sprovach, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2022
  • And lord help the poor dentist who’s tasked with poking around her mouth with a metal spike.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
  • Any good dentist would tell you that oral health starts with brushing teeth.
    — Popular Science, 14 Mar. 2024
  • After a three-week trial, the jury found the dentist did kill his wife in 2016.
    — Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2022
  • But the scout remembers seeing that the dentist’s shoes were on.
    — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 2 July 2022
  • The tooth got infected and Sebert had to see a dentist.
    — Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Now, how the hell are you supposed to know the inner workings of your dentist’s office?
    — Jenna Ryu, SELF, 19 Sep. 2023
  • And half the cast of SNL appears to have gotten the same massive chompers from 30 Rock’s in-house dentist.
    — Vulture Editors, Vulture, 23 May 2024
  • Who doesn’t want to ace their next dentist appointment or at least not leave in tears?
    — Elizabeth Djinis, SELF, 11 July 2022
  • People move back-and-forth each day to attend school in the U.S. or see a dentist in Matamoros, just across the border.
    — Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2024

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