Sentence examples for on a toothache from inspiring English sources

Operas like these, in which the West's flirtation with distant locales is colored with condescension, can bring on a toothache in the stage director who has to choose between an unreconstructed eye-candy approach or a Splenda version that leaves an aftertaste of postcolonial embarrassment.

THE FACTS If a little whiskey can ease the mind or dull the senses, then why not use it on a toothache?

He likened the pain when his knee was hurting to that of a toothache, and said that, on those days, it was hard to get back into the flow of a game after sitting on the bench for a while.

This is a home remedy that is said to cure or at least ease the pain of a toothache until it goes away on its own.

Think of a toothache: when you can only focus on the ache, your thinking is wrecked.

I'll take the pain of a toothache any day over the pain of feeling stuck.

McIlroy pulled out midway through the second round in Florida and then blamed his decision on a severe toothache.

He slouched and banged a keyboard, talked as fast as any newyawka and looked a bit gloomy, like a man with a toothache coming on.

At least 12,000 years ago, a mastodon with a toothache died on top of a pile of seashells beside a creek near what is now Yorktown, Virginia.

(REUTERS) MESSI COULD MISS MATCH Lionel Messi may miss Barcelona's Spanish league match against Zaragoza on Sunday because he has a toothache.

Sam has a toothache and starts on the slippery slope with some medicinal opium.