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tooth sockets

n. (tooth socket English)

Usage examples of "tooth sockets".

Knee-high walls remained, in a row like tooth sockets in an empty skull.

In the jaw of allosaurus, imbedded in bone beneath the tooth sockets, lay seven sets of replacements for each tooth.

He couldn't breathe through his swollen nose, and every time he sucked air through his mouth, electric needles of pain stabbed into the exposed nerves of his emptied tooth sockets.

That kept the pain constant, as if it were festering in several tooth sockets at once.

Their roofs and walls were long gone, leaving the shells gaping at the sky like empty tooth sockets in a skull.