Wooden hors d'oeuvre holder

Usage examples of toothpick.

Arkansas has been called the Hot Water State and the Toothpick State, Georgia the Buzzard State, Goober State and Cracker State.

Pete, complaining jocularly about something, and picking his discolored front teeth with a toothpick.

Behind the yellow counter were two people, an elderly matron with gray hair, horn-rimmed glasses, and a jowly jaw, and a tall man with black hair and a toothpick in his mouth.

Nicky Kix, rolling a toothpick around his mouth as he pushed the hard words out.

Dorothy baked fifteen dozen gingerbread men to have at the house for the holidays, Bobby was pulling down all the Christmas decorations from the closets, and Betty Raye and Mother Smith were making gumdrop trees out of toothpicks for the dining room table.

Curtis Weill parked the toothpick in the corner of his mouth and held up two slender headless nails, identical in size and length except one was brighter.

The rest of the appetizers had been pushed off the plates to make room for paella, toothpicks sticking at odd angles.

It was probably only his fevered imagination, distorted in his memory by fear and terror, but the last stavanzer had looked big enough to swallow the entire ship and use the mainmast for a toothpick.

Pour filling over crust and bake in preheated oven for 1 hour, 15 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

He was a bannerless knight, named Julien de Boys-Bourredon, who not having inherited on his estate enough to make a toothpick, and knowing no other wealth than the rich nature with which his dead mother had opportunely furnished him, conceived the idea of deriving therefrom both rent and profit at court, knowing how fond ladies are of those good revenues, and value them high and dear, when they can stand being looked at between two suns.

When it boils, put in the fillets rolled up, and fastened with a toothpick.

Tiny wires and internal pieces of intricate boxwork had been reduced to toothpicks.

The editor of the Sunday Supplement put his toothpick behind his ear and fixed Condy with his eyeglasses.

There were darkies and loafers and hackmen, and also vague individuals, the loosest and blankest he had ever seen anywhere, with tufts on their chins, toothpicks in their mouths, hands in their pockets, rumination in their jaws and diamond pins in their shirt-fronts, who looked as if they had sauntered over from Pennsylvania Avenue to while away half an hour, forsaking for that interval their various slanting postures in the porticoes of the hotels and the doorways of the saloons.

Burnside has arms and shoulders like a dwarfed goliath, and legs so thin his small feet look like powderpuffs attached to toothpicks.