: to experience the emergence of one's teeth through the gums
Examples of teethe in a Sentence
The baby is starting to teethe.
Recent Examples on the WebBut proponents insist those are teething defects in a nascent technology — and fixable.—Steve Lohr, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023 Babies can teethe on it.—Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022 There is the Infant Phenomenon, who strains to pass herself off as such in her family’s theatrical troupe despite having teethed several years ago.—Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2020 The problems experienced this week are unlikely to be teething problems either as motorcycles and tricycles have, overtime, become mainstay features of Lagos’ transport system due to gaps that exist.—Yomi Kazeem, Quartz Africa, 6 Feb. 2020 For now, on the living room floor, Blue IV and his sister Pickles are on my lap, teething.—Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 22 Jan. 2020 The mother said that the little boy began to recuperate, but then started teething, causing him to have new struggles with eating.—Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 20 Nov. 2019 Some of the types of baby food tested include infant formula, meat jars, infant cereal, teething biscuits and rice puffs.—Ayano Nagaishi, azcentral, 17 Oct. 2019 Additionally, rubbing medicine with benzocaine on the gums when a child is teething does not seem to help the pain any better than just rubbing the gums without medicine.—Philly.com, 7 June 2018 See More
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