1
: a set of teeth
2
: an artificial replacement for one or more teeth
especially
: a set of false teeth
Examples of denture in a Sentence
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Antonietta always wore her dentures in public, her friends said.
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Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 4 June 2024
You will also be asked to remove eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, dentures, and piercingsprior to the surgery.
—Scott Sundick, Verywell Health, 3 June 2024
The dentures and the rest of Smith’s belongings had been thrown away by city workers as part of an aggressive effort to rid Albuquerque of homeless encampments.
—Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 16 May 2024
Payton said of the president’s dentures, which were made from, among other things, hippo tusks.
—Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 12 May 2024
That was before McLeod learned that facility employees left her mother's dentures in for so long that Betty's gums had grown and stuck to them.
—Sahana Jayaraman, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
One last unexpected hack: denture tablets, says manicurist Miss Pop.
—Belle Bakst, Allure, 12 Mar. 2024
One of the victims, a 63-year-old woman, was hit in the mouth, which broke her dentures, a prosecutor told the newspaper then.
—Luke Nozicka, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
On Wednesday, one outlet reported that the Grammy winner had his teeth removed to make way for the dentures, which reportedly cost $850,000.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 4 June 2024
You will also be asked to remove eyeglasses, contact lenses, hearing aids, dentures, and piercingsprior to the surgery.
—Scott Sundick, Verywell Health, 3 June 2024
The dentures and the rest of Smith’s belongings had been thrown away by city workers as part of an aggressive effort to rid Albuquerque of homeless encampments.
—Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 16 May 2024
Payton said of the president’s dentures, which were made from, among other things, hippo tusks.
—Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 12 May 2024
That was before McLeod learned that facility employees left her mother's dentures in for so long that Betty's gums had grown and stuck to them.
—Sahana Jayaraman, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2024
One last unexpected hack: denture tablets, says manicurist Miss Pop.
—Belle Bakst, Allure, 12 Mar. 2024
One of the victims, a 63-year-old woman, was hit in the mouth, which broke her dentures, a prosecutor told the newspaper then.
—Luke Nozicka, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
On Wednesday, one outlet reported that the Grammy winner had his teeth removed to make way for the dentures, which reportedly cost $850,000.
—Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 18 Jan. 2024
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Copy CitationKids Definition
denture
noun
den·ture
ˈden-chər 
: a set of teeth
especially
: a partial or complete set of false teeth
Medical Definition
denture
noun
den·ture
ˈden-chər
1
: a set of teeth
2
: an artificial replacement for one or more teeth
especially
: a set of false teeth
called also dental plate
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