How to Use toothless in a Sentence

toothless

adjective

• Clark is part of a toothless trend of late.
  — Daily News, 21 Mar. 2026
• The toothless man and the fat woman just nodded.
  — Óscar Martínez, The Dial, 30 Apr. 2026
• All living birds have toothless beaks, but this wasn’t always so.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• The toothless man nodded, and the fat woman dozed.
  — Óscar Martínez, The Dial, 30 Apr. 2026
• Perhaps my favorite was the portrait of him as a toothless six year old.
  — Taylor Mead, House Beautiful, 25 Jan. 2019
• The two white coaches who have led the Lions since have been toothless.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
• Critics counter that the new law is both too vague and too toothless to help put-upon workers.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• The lion’s bite was toothless, while the ewe gored the lion’s stomach with her sharp horns.
  — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2023
• Then seemingly overnight, one type of whale — the toothless baleens — became huge.
  — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 24 May 2017
• The Hatch Act is one of our most toothless federal statutes.
  — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
• In laying him low, MacLean at times makes Ewan a bit too toothless.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2020
• Whether that's a toothless threat or a more dire sign of Arctic conflict is unclear.
  — Star Tribune, 21 May 2021
• The toothless carp fish – which are plant eaters – voraciously feast on dead human skin.
  — Lucia I. Suarez Sang, Fox News, 3 July 2018
• The velvety 1-month-old pressed his whiskery nose into her sleeve and nuzzled her arm with his toothless gums.
  — Marc Lester, Alaska Dispatch News, 6 July 2017
• By contrast, Toipahautea had a long, toothless jaw and is thought to have fed using plates of baleen.
  — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
• And, of course, if an off-brand browser is present on the Mac, the content filter is toothless.
  — PCMAG, 17 Mar. 2025
• Baleen is the apparatus toothless whales rely on to filter food from the sea.
  — Jennifer S. Holland, Smithsonian, 1 Sep. 2017
• While many later pterosaurs had toothless beaks, early pterosaurs like Eotephradactylus were toothy.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2025
• Instead, its team seemed to freeze, falling to a limp, toothless 2-0 defeat.
  — New York Times, 17 Nov. 2021
• Therizinosaurus may have been up to 50-feet tall, and their toothless beats may have come handy in plucking food off of trees.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2024
• And nor are any of the spooky figures, which range from 1950s housewives to toothless hags.
  — The Week, TheWeek, 7 May 2026
• The males, in comparison, are tiny and toothless, living only long enough to mate.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 28 Jan. 2017
• Critics weren’t as fond of the weirdly toothless movie, but audiences showed up anyway.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 2 July 2026
• The snakes are also almost entirely toothless with a soft mouth that helps them grip smooth, round eggs, per the statement.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
• Out of Sue’s spine emerges a creature with several breasts, toothless gums and maybe a single lock of dark hair.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 27 Feb. 2025
• For years, scientists have disagreed about which species of baleen whale came first, and how the toothless species were related.
  — Author: Karen Weintraub, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2018
• Johnson needs to shoot at that level, because his game inside the arc remains fairly toothless.
  — John Hollinger, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2026
• In the end though, the black red carpet proved a toothless tiger, far less effective in practice than in theory.
  — Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 8 Jan. 2018
• Instead, Biden is just going to double the toothless fine for passengers who refuse to wear a mask.
  — David Faris, The Week, 9 Sep. 2021
• That, plus a toothless pass rush and subpar run defense, was all the Titans needed to mount their comeback.
  — Terez A. Paylor, kansascity, 9 Feb. 2018