When he elevated the empty bottle to one eye and looked far into it, they roared; and when he finally took a toothpick and gravely placed it in his mouth, his auditors were delighted.
After that he took a toothpick and used it elaborately.
With the point of a toothpick take up a little of the color-paste and add to the fondant; add the extract and stir until the mixture is hot, thin and evenly tinted.
Stick a wooden toothpick into each of these pieces and dip each one into the hot icing, afterwards removing the toothpick, of course.
Though it was December the toothpick point of a white-kid slipper protruded from the cage.
Your mother and I never bought a toothpick that we hadn't agreed on beforehand.
When I had told him, he pitched his toothpick into my grate, yawned, and went out.
He smelled of spirits, and carried a toothpick in his mouth.
While their waiter was gone with their order, he beckoned with one finger to another, and sent him out for a paper, which he unfolded and spread on the table, taking a toothpick into his mouth, and running the sheet over with his eyes.
During the time a man is taboo'd he must not feed himself with his own hands, but must be fed by somebody else: he must not even use a toothpick himself, but must guide another person's hand holding the toothpick.
He might not even use a toothpick himself, but might guide the hand of another person holding the toothpick.
In another archway there was a toothpickcurtain which attracted much attention.
If these straws cannot be obtained, toothpick masts with paper sails will be quite as effective.
The toothpick should be a quill, not because the metalic picks injure the enamel, but because the quill pick is so flexible it fits into all the irregularities between the teeth.
Always after using the toothpick the mouth should be thoroughly rinsed.
The quill toothpick flexed sharply against one of the tall man's front teeth.
The quill toothpick under the adroit guidance of his tongue traveled from the left- to the right-hand side of the other's mouth.
Go on," prompted the man with the quill toothpick softly.
He seemed to be engrossed in carefully slitting the point of the quill toothpick he had acquired with his knife.
He appeared to be fascinated with the restless movement of the quill toothpick in the other's mouth.
The quill toothpick appeared to occupy the tall man's full attention for a period of many seconds.
He remembered the quick little tattoo of Larmon's quill toothpick at this admission, and Larmon's tight little smile.
The man with the quill toothpick sat down on the sand.
The tall man allowed the point of the quill toothpick to flex and strike back against his teeth.
It was the quill toothpick flexing against one of Larmon's teeth.
Larmon chewed at his quill toothpick until, following a savage little click, he removed it in two pieces from his mouth.
Neither is the butcher's wooden skewer, just extracted from the meat, an elegant toothpick if you are fastidious.
The Democratic chap sliced a toothpick from the arm of the chair with his knife, and says he: "That is the present platform on which we are E pluribus unum.
Rumor states that it was the Honest Abe's hour of fragmentary leisure when this inquiring chap perforated the White House; and that he was sitting with his boots on the window-sill, carving a pine toothpick from a vagrant chip.
When the clock has dried, oil the spindle holes carefully; this may be done with a toothpick or a sliver of woodcut to a fine point.
To fill the reservoir place the pen upright on its point and dip a small camel's-hair brush or cloth-bound toothpick into the ink bottle and "scrape" off the ink it will hold on the inner edge of the quill.
These can be easily repaired by inserting in the neck a piece of match, toothpick or splinter of wood and tying the hanging string to it.
This playing with a toothpick was a confirmed habit with the Admiral; he involuntarily picked his teeth in the middle of a battle when meditating a retreat.
And after the massacre of Saint-Bartholomew, the mob made horrible mockery of the Admiral's body, which hung for three days at Montfaucon, by sticking a grotesque toothpick between his teeth.
On the tray is a tiny teapot and a tiny cup and a tiny dish, in which are three little salted damsons, with a toothpick fixed in one of them.
We call such chop-sticks komochi-hashi, chopstick with baby, because the toothpick inside the chopstick like the baby inside the mother.
As to snuff-boxes and toothpick cases," he wrote to the Countess of Ossory from Paris in 1771, "the vintage has entirely failed this year.
Cummins, who had just entered the cabin, with the inevitable toothpick in his mouth, chuckled "He!
I met Captain Cummins the day before, looking in at a jeweller's shop in Regent Street, with his hands in his pockets and a toothpick in his mouth.
I couldn't get anybody to consider your toothpick and matches idea, nor the wooden soldiers, nor even the shingles," he ended.
I'll never be found a second time stringing my beads with a toothpick and relying for time upon a clock with the hour hand missing.
She took a gold victorian toothpick from the pocket of her mannish jacket and used it energetically.
The toothpick was once more in play and the luminous eyes fixed straight ahead.
Nourish'm on anything," she shouted, rubbing the round end of the toothpick vigorously into her ear.
She produced the toothpick and scratched her chin with it.
She burst into a laugh and took out her toothpick to point it at me.
She waved the toothpick toward the chairman and politely waited for either further questions or dismissal.
Miss Francis suspended the toothpick before her chin and looked at me as though I'd said dirty words in the presence of ladies.
She removed the toothpickin order to laugh unpleasantly.
Of course," and she began rattling off a catalogue of items, stabbing the air with her toothpick as a sort of running punctuation.
She shrugged her ample shoulders, and thetoothpick came into full play.
Madame pushed her empty plate away and took a toothpick from the table.
If the toothpick comes out without particles of dough adhering, the mixture is sufficiently baked in that place and consequently throughout the loaf.
Probably the most satisfactory test is to insert a toothpick as deep as possible into the center of the loaf.
When there is a cavity in an aching tooth it should be cleaned of food, and a little pledget of cotton wool wrapped on a toothpick may be used to wipe the cavity dry.
A parterre box costs a hundred and twenty-five dollars a night," said Mr. Spragg, transferring a toothpickto his waistcoat pocket.
The Grand Army man sat down behind the stove and tilted his chair back comfortably against the wall, fishing his quill toothpick from his waistcoat pocket.
They seem more appropriate for people of some reputation," the spare man continued, with an ingratiating concession in his shrill voice, as he carefully placed his toothpick in his vest pocket.
The spare man shifted the quill toothpickhe was chewing to the other side of his mouth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toothpick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: broom; cleaning; device
