Closer to home, despite the imposition of dental charges in Britain since the 1950s, there has been a steady rise in the proportion of people with a healthy set of teeth.

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If he cannot show his honest intentions in other convincing ways, Israel's prime minister had better set his teeth and carry out the Wye commitments on withdrawal in full, as speedily as he can.

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She resented it, and it always seemed to set her teeth on edge though if she'd heard it once, she'd heard it a hundred times, so often in fact that her daughter, just learning to talk, had eagerly enlisted in the interrogation.

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Fenelon's is a plastic set of parallel vertical tracks with teeth.

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When I asked the winner, a diminutive brunette named Sonia Gonzales, what set her apart, she flashed her teeth.

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Wake up and brush teeth, boil water, and set up his thermos and tea.

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In the middle of November, a freakish weather pattern set in howling wind with ice in its teeth.

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Constance unpacked her clothing that first night in her strange chilly room, brushed her teeth, plumped the pillows on her new bed, set the alarm.

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Once that was done, he set to the real work: with hand drills, handsaws (their teeth rubbed, to run more smoothly, with a candle end), his bevelled-edge chisel and his wide, heavy, trusty Number 7 plane, which he used for everything.

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