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Example sentences for: gums

How can you use “gums” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Vampirism may be traced to the disease porphyria, which causes sunlight-averse skin, retracted gums, and red urine--leading to the blood-drinking myth.
It is much harder to convince someone to poke her gums every night with a piece of rubber, to sleep with a choking plastic tooth guard, and to undergo four surgeries to fix a gum flap, all for a benefit that is decades away.
What would you do first for a student who came to you with inflammed gums?
This works for people with receded gums.
As the dentist (or assistant) navigates this horrifying little gadget through the graveyard of your mouth, a color television magnifies the florid pustulance of your gums and the puke-yellow dinge of your smile.