Toothed in a sentence as an adjective

First came iPhone, and then came various keyboards which can be blue toothed to the phone.

No doubt there's been a fine-toothed comb running through everything he's done since that first story broke.

Only instead of a brief search you get the car gutted and worked over with a fine-toothed comb.

But yes, we're going to go over all the copy with a fine-toothed comb and make sure we intend what we're saying.

You can dump everything and then spend the next 6 months going through it with a fine-toothed comb and writing articles daily.

HP hired comedians to make fun of potential customers, like looking photos of buck-toothed relatives.

Apple was a long-toothed public company when it reinvented portable music and, later, smartphones.

They know everything they do is gone over with a fine-toothed comb — by their peers, their bosses, their lawyers, other agencies, the president, and sometimes Congress.

Google's competitors are going over these proposals with the proverbial fine-toothed comb.

This is a completely different mechanic than in the standard 'stick shift' manual transmission, which uses traditional toothed gears meshing together.

I don't immediately recall specific prior specifications there, but I'd definitely want to go through the W3C site with a fine-toothed comb to check.

Once in awhile I'll meet up with some old friends or employers when I come back to my old city for holidays and they'll tell me about how this sweaty-toothed madman keeps calling looking for me.

I believe the shift from unicellular to multicellular life was the most fine-toothed of the Great Filters we've already passed - let us hope there won't be even stricter ones in our future.

What got me off completely was the fact that the responses I got from the senior manager said that he'd passed all of my information on to the legal team, who'd been over it with a fine-toothed comb and decided it was all above-board.

If the police serve a warrant on the house next door to you, and your street gets blocked off while they go over the building with a fine-toothed comb and carry off evidence, it will be damn inconvenient for you, but I dont know of any law preventing them from doing it.

It doesn't bother me that the NSA exercised powers that they were given and were instructed to use, it bothers me that all of the lawyers who went over this stuff with a fine-toothed comb concluded that this was all perfectly OK given current interpretation of constitutional law.

Toothed definitions

adjective

having teeth especially of a certain number or type; often used in combination; "saw-toothed"

adjective

notched like a saw with teeth pointing toward the apex

See also: serrate serrated saw-toothed notched

adjective

having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed

See also: erose jagged jaggy notched