Sentence examples for tonsil from inspiring English sources
The word 'tonsil' is correct and is commonly used in written English
It refers to either of two small masses of lymphoid tissue located on either side of the throat, behind the tongue. Example: The doctor examined my sore throat and noticed that my tonsils were inflamed. She prescribed some antibiotics to treat the infection.
noun
Either of a pair of small masses of lymphoid tissue that lie on each side of the throat and that help protect the body against infection; palatine tonsil.
The surface of this tonsil has pits leading to lower lymphatic tissue as in the other two tonsil types, but these pits are effectively drained by small glands (mucous glands), and infection is rare.
The exposed surface of each tonsil is marked by numerous pits that lead to deeper lymphatic tissue.
It extends through the tonsillar capsule into the loose connective tissue of the neck and displaces the involved tonsil toward the midline of the throat.
It's equal opportunities tonsil jockey and California Girl Katy Perry".
Words like austerity, targets and PPIs seem so utterly meaningless when you have a doctor trying to keep your airway clear by aspirating the pus out of your abscessed tonsil.
The boy didn't know what a tonsil was, only that he had been promised all the ice cream he could eat, and he worked himself up into a delirious frenzy of anticipation: Listen: you know what I'm going to do?
It couldn't have gone better: the band blasted its slow, blobby group sound, and Mr. James's swollen-tonsil tenor, into the sky, alternately twinkling and making violent noise.
A visible tonsil-tickler became – to 90s ladette culture – shorthand for "scary", "crazy" and "out of control" sexuality.
Where Sharapova oversteps – or over-shouts – the mark is when she lets her tonsil-wrecking scream linger well after the shot has been played, right up until it reaches the racket of her opponent, yet not on all points, usually only on those near the end of a rally.
There are no dancing girls in laddered fishnet, or dancing boys in bum-clinging trousers, no garish starlit backcloths, no tonsil-baring vocalists, no tumblers, trapeze artists or vent acts.
