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Example sentences for "toothsome"

Lexicographically close words:
toothfish; toothless; toothlike; toothpick; toothpicks; toothwort; toothy; tooting; tootle; tootling
  1. Under Pompey's régime spiders and moths found no tolerance, and a magnificent black cat effectually frightened away the audacious rodents which were tempted to depredations by the toothsome cereals in the great bins.

  2. All at once she shut the oven door, where three toothsome loaves were browning, and listened intently.

  3. She, too, plunged into the labyrinth of toothsome titles.

  4. It makes the most toothsome waffles--all crisp and everything.

  5. We of the cold North, as we crack the toothsome pecan, hardly realize its kinship with the hickory.

  6. As such toothsome dainties were rare in Colchester at just this time, it is not strange that her childish soul coveted it, for Hitty was but ten years old.

  7. It is no wonder, then, that everybody listened when the distinguished epicure launched out on the proper way to both acquire and serve so rare and toothsome a morsel as a truffle.

  8. Good, wholesome, and toothsome it was, rich and nutty.

  9. Actually one of them half-scalped a teamster as he lay dreaming of home with his long fair hair commingled with the toothsome grass.

  10. The mosquitoes became very bad in the lower reaches of the river, the only redeeming feature of which part of the trip was the immense abundance of ducks and geese, which, being shot, were a welcome and toothsome addition to the larder.

  11. Sholto will be an honest captain of your house-carls, if you see to it that the steward locks up his loaves of sugar and his most toothsome preserves.

  12. In ten minutes it will be so hot and toothsome that you will scarce have patience to wait till it be decently cool in the platters.

  13. Between these booths and the water are many tents, which have been set up that the people of quality may entertain their friends therein with toothsome food and sweet waters.

  14. What a toothsome bird, too, is your ruffed grouse, how plump and yet gamey to the taste!

  15. Humming birds hover over the milkweeds, bent on extracting not honey only, but toothsome insects from the rosy blooms.

  16. Into these have been thrown small embers from the fire; the draught fans them into a flame, and above, three flat pans make their toothsome holdings to sizzle and sputter with infinite zest.

  17. Nor was there any lack of olives, dry, it is true, and without any seasoning, but for all that toothsome and pleasant.

  18. The bitter is indeed to come," said the countess; "and such bitter that colocynth is sweet and oleander toothsome in comparison.

  19. It is just as well not to recall even the memories of this toothsome dish.

  20. Storms may tear away the support of these poor mollusks, and the waves dash them far out of the reach of the tides, while at low water, crows and gulls use all their ingenuity to get at their toothsome flesh.

  21. Either here or in the snug tunnel nest deep in the bank the young muskrats are born, and here they are weaned upon toothsome mussels and succulent lily roots.

  22. From the smoke-blackened rafters over the spacious fireplace were hanging a dozen sides of home-cured bacon, huge toothsome slabs suggesting mounds of luscious rashers.

  23. Just in from their Arctic breeding-grounds, they were lingering for a month's feast on toothsome south-coast goose-grass before seeking their winter home on the great Gulf two thousand miles away.

  24. The sportsman is willing to count the toothsome rails as "game" when he goes after them in the marshes of the middle coastal States.

  25. The polar bears wander from their native shores: they seem to enjoy travel, and when they sail south on pans of ice they are looking for that toothsome morsel, the seal.

  26. They made toothsome pies, and what they couldn't eat they left behind.

  27. Reaching forward again, he lifted up the desk lid, and there, fully exposed to view, lay the package temptingly wide open, displaying its toothsome contents.

  28. They vary their dinners by helping themselves to a lump of whale-meat, red and coarse and rancid, but very toothsome to an Esquimau, notwithstanding.

  29. The old servitor of Squire Wynn is in his way a gourmet, and has a tooth for toothsome things.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toothsome" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.