Sentence examples for teeth adapting from inspiring English sources

Having cut his teeth adapting Pinter and Mart Crowley for the screen, the director still knows how to make a stage play look anything but stagey and there's little sense here of the text's theatrical origins.

Most lizards eat a variety of arthropods, with sharp, tricuspid teeth adapted for grabbing and holding.

The ctenizids, the best-known trap-door spiders, have a special row of teeth adapted for digging.

Hesperornis was a Cretaceous genus of flightless diving bird that had large feet and sharp backward-directed teeth adapted for preying on fish.

"We are used to conceiving of theropods as dinosaurs with big teeth adapted to hunting large prey," Dr. Makovicky said yesterday, "but these beaked theropods adapted very differently and may have lived on tiny invertebrates similar to brine shrimp".

In its mouth was a set of high grooved, self-sharpening cheek teeth adapted for grinding plant matter; in its horny beak were several incisor-like teeth used to nip off vegetation.

Sharks with teeth adapted to shearing and sawing are aided in biting by body motions including a rotation of the body, twisting movement of the head and body, or rapid vibration of the head.

The caecilian fetus emerges from the egg membrane as soon as its meagre yolk supply is exhausted; it uses its deciduous teeth, adapted for scraping, to obtain secretions and epithelial tissues from the oviduct lining.

Sharks with teeth adapted for shearing and sawing are aided in biting by body motions that include rotation of the whole body, twisting movements of the head, and rapid vibrations of the head.

Crocodilians included several species of Shamosuchus, a genus with teeth adapted for crushing shells.

There are 24 teeth adapted for chewing, the premolars and molars, at the back of the mouth.