Dentist

//ˈdɛntɪst//

"Dentist" in a Sentence (12 examples)

If you know that something unpleasant will happen, that you will go to the dentist for example, or to France, then that is not good.

You ought to see a dentist.

The generous dentist contributed some two billion yen to charity.

How often do you have to see the dentist?

Tom should have gone to the dentist yesterday.

It happened that her husband was a dentist.

The dentist will see you only by appointment.

The child dreads his visit to the dentist.

The committee man is a dentist in private life.

You'd better see a dentist at once.

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It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.

Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to enlightenment given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical beginning of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States.

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