Example sentences for: toothbrush

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

  • Popsies date back to 1862 as an endearing designation: Popsy have you seen my toothbrush? and, according to the OED is a kind of running extension of pop , an endearing appellation for a girl friend, woman, a casual female acquaintance.

  • As a term of endearment girlie and girly are in the same category as popsy: Girlie, have you seen my toothbrush? in the sense of being less often heard, although it goes back to the 19th century.

  • Pop, have you seen my toothbrush does not have the same endearment to it somehow, possibly because of its use as a term of address for father or an old man.

  • English words also sometimes combine with Japanese words, as for example haburashi toothbrush, from Japanese ha tooth and English brush .

  • The female half of a 25-year marriage, "a relationship so close that they shared an electric toothbrush" (Yuck.


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