the dentist

noun

variants or the dentist's

: the place where a dentist works

I saw her at the dentist last week.

He goes to the dentist's for a check-up every six months.

Examples of the dentist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Investigators allege the dentist administered multiple sedatives and failed to provide proper emergency treatment. — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 17 July 2026

During a search warrant executed before Hemphill’s arrest, the dentist could not show detectives where the practice stored its Narcan, police wrote in the warrant. — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 July 2026

Robert Posey, suffering from a toothache, visited a German dentist and learned that the dentist’s son-in-law was an art scholar who had once worked for Nazi Party leaders Hermann Göring and Alfred Rosenberg. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 July 2026

The same imbalance driving them is the mechanism researchers now tie to cardiovascular issues, dementia risk and higher mortality, so treating early symptoms as a signal rather than a nuisance is worth the dentist visit. — Allison Palmer, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026

Rhymes for the dentist

• adventist
• apprenticed