What is "denture"

Usage examples of "denture".

But she refused to gossip about her guests, she divulged little of her own past, she was the woman who kept the secrets in an era that no longer believed there were any secrets worth keeping, each morning sending out her girls, none of them as innocent as they looked, to comb and collect the daily tidal wrack from under the beds, back of the closets, behind the toilets, the crumpled condoms, the soiled menstrual pads, stiff handkerchiefs, stained panties, spoiled food, damp bathing suits, lost dentures, toothbrushes, dildos, bodily fluids, their residue everywhere, the domestic staff armed now with surgical gloves in this new Age of Latex.

Most seemed to be generalists, judging from their full-page ads, which trumpeted crowns, dentures, fillings, periodontal work, bridges, root canals, cosmetic dentistry, and oral surgery.

I would bind myself, dentures fractured or hopelessly mislaid, in horrible chambres garnies where I would be entertained at tedious vivisecting parties that generally ended with Charlotte or Valeria weeping in my bleeding arms and being tenderly kissed by my brotherly lips in a dream disorder of auctioneered Viennese bric--brac, pity, impotence and the brown wigs of tragic old women who had just been gassed.

He leads Babygirl out onto the polished dance floor as the band plays "I Love You Truly" and how elegantly he dances, how masterfully he leads his bride, blood-red carnation in his lapel, chips of dry ice in his eyes, wide fixed grinning-white dentures, how grace-ful the couple's dips and bends, Babygirl in a breathtakingly beau-tiful antique wedding gown worn by her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother in their times, an heirloom wedding ring as well, lilies of the valley braided in the bride's cinnamon curls, Babygirl laughs showing the cherry-pink interior of her mouth, she squeals Oh!

A new denture cleaner and brightener, a new itch fighting shampoo, the radiant testimonial of a halitosis survivor nonchalantly sweeping up dead leaves with a bamboo lawn rake whipped up in a Chinese prison and back to news on the economic front, the trade deficit, a burgeoning bank fraud, a lugubrious President announcing China's most favoured nation status chewing your bandages?

The screen had simmered down to display a new denture cleaner and brightener Lily?

Inside Aaron Pinkus's Buick coupe, the sartorially stunning Desis One and Two, the former's mouth somewhat enlarged by a plastic front denture, sat in the cramped backseat, each admiring himself and both constantly running their hands over the smooth dark fabric of their cutaways, especially the satin lapels.

He catches the words brains and decapitated, and something about dentures lying on the street.

The next investigatory step was a complete paper chase: men capable of making dentures cross-probed against “tall, middle-aged,” “grayhaired,” “O+ blood” and time frame opportunity.

If a man worked on human dentures he could apply the same skills to animal or plastic teeth.

All three men were mutilated in the same manner--cuts from an implement known as a zoot stick, bites with the dentures the killer was wearing all over their abdominal areas.

I’m betting he knows how to make dentures, and yesterday I got a tip from a snitch of mine: Goines was putting together a burglary gang.

They do animal dentures for taxidermists, and they’re the only lab in LA that works with actual animal teeth--that lead you had that said all taxidermists use plastic teeth was wrong.

Joredco is the only lab in Los Angeles that fashions animal dentures, and we’ve never done them for a wolverine.

It was Loftis being strangled by Coleman Healy, big ugly pink dentures with fangs attached in his mouth.