How To Use Jaw In A Sentence

The relationships between hagfishes, lampreys, and jawed vertebrates are one of the still-unresolved problems in craniate phylogeny.
There is no suggestion of a pronounced twist in the ventral margin of the jaw of Hynerpeton like that seen in Densignathus.
The long punishing jaws of a borzoi can snatch up small and not-so-small varmints both wild or domestic with lightning speed.
Another disease caused by a fungus is “actinomycosis”, which in cattle and other animals is called “lumpy jaw”. A Close Look at Parasitic Diseases
The assembled opposition members, journalists and tourism industry heavies were slack-jawed.

The organisation's shield consisted of a male forearm whose fist was thrusting the point of a spear into the jaws of a wolf. DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
Manzo noticed the neatly trimmed goatee and mustache combination that framed Rossiter's facial features and the chiseled jaw of a man who was in peak physical condition.
Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
It is likely to have benefited more from erecting the jawbone outside the island kirk and turning it into a tourist attraction, than the museum, which will simply be adding it to its existing collection.
To a lesser extent, the jaw depressors (mainly digastric, geniohyoid and lateral pterygoid muscles) were examined.
Soldiers resemble worker termites, except that they have enlarged brownish heads and strong, well-developed jaws.
The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
If you've booked an open-jaw international ticket out of Darwin, the hop between Kununurra and Darwin will start at £73 with Air North.
The small head is solid gold in colour, with a happy, playful expression, wide square jaw and a red beard.
A kind of fea-dog, with a large head, and a jaw like a warming pan; it is marked on the back with a crofs, and is fo large that a lingle fifli loads two or three boats. Theory of tides, tr. [extr. from Études de la nature].
On Seventh Avenue, slack-jawed visitors scrambled for digital cameras, and taxicabs actually slowed down for something other than a fare.
A big-jawed and relatively small-brained hominid known as Paranthropus consumed mainly nuts and other hard foods, causing it to die out as these resources became scarce in African habitats.
The tooth was drawn from the upper jaw.
The kids stand frozen and slack-jawed, mesmerized by the adults capering around in rented tutus.
Tetanus often begins with mild spasms in the jaw muscles-also known as lockjaw or trismus.
The result is a dull ache in your chest which may spread to your jaw or left arm. The Sun
When he glanced back at the corner, jaw setting, she laid her hand on his arm.
The Confidence Man said bjobotts2 said jawboner said ifthethunderdon ... said Elizabeth Edwards Confronts Ann Coulter On Hardball
Missy's fans and friends have been dropping their jaws at her newest invention: her retooled curvy figure.
Occasionally rorqual skulls have been discovered in which the long lower jaws have been stuck wedged inside various of the skull openings and with their tips protruding like tusks. From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II
Jaworski says McNabb diminishes the impact of his inaccuracy by being an elite scrambler and rarely making stupid throws, and that was true even during his struggles.
_Hake_ in Norwegian means hook, and the term hake or hook-fish was given because of the hooked character of the under-jaw. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
He had a stern, squarish jaw, and a rather crooked nose.
Grinding of the teeth and clenching of the jaws during sleep, otherwise known as bruxism, is a common condition for adults who want to release tension. Article Ace
His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buck-teeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin. Vanity Fair
He was tall, probably a foot taller than me, and he had dark hair, hazel-green eyes, a square jaw, and the look of one who was serious and dedicated in all that he did.
A common plaything for Chinese children, the grasshopper is defamiliarized as ‘a six-legged monster, fresh-grass green, with saw-blade jaws, bulging eyes, and whips for eyebrows’.
Then he was left with a double jaw fracture. The Sun
The militants first opened fire from the top of a hillock when the jawans were in a regular patrol in the area.
This turnbuckle fastens to the chainplate with a jaw fitting and pin, and is swaged to the wire rope stay.
His jaw dropped, and I felt ashamed of my answer, for who was I to so speak to a Brother, even if he be a solitary?
News reports in December indicating that there had been an attempted coup were subsequently dismissed by Jawara as groundless rumours.
His chin is almost recessing into his jaw and he has the trademark republican pig snout. Think Progress » Who Is Randy ‘Baby Killer’ Neugebauer?
So, the dog will be sleeping in a Jawa Sandcrawler. Jawa Sandcrawler Dog House!!!
In nature, jawfish live in colonies of from fifty to several hundred extremely territorial individuals.
Yet unlike the systemic risk problem, which is endlessly jawboned in Washington today, no one is really talking about the dispersion of responsibility problem. Legislating a Conscience on Wall Street
Objective To evaluate and generalize the application of intermaxillary fixation screw in the jaw fracture.
Riders are suspended in the jaws of a vampire bat, their legs dangling free, as they swoop over the treetops and soar through the sky.
Gingerly, she lets the sharp end of the ice glide over his jaw.
This often causes spots around the chin and jaw - areas that are particularly sensitive to hormone fluctuations. The Sun
It wasn't so much the oath that roused the furor as the document which accompanied it, entitled Protocols and Requirements Between Spiritual Father & His Spiritual Sons, which takes, Garth George of The New Zealand Herald noted, "1300 words to describe in jaw-dropping detail how the 'spiritual sons' shall behave towards their 'spiritual father.' Cult scene: New Zealand and Africa - Boing Boing
A bony layer of cementum covers the outside of the root, under the gum line, and holds the tooth in place within the jawbone.
I give her medison one man have a fellon riseing on his hand one other with the Tooth ake has taken cold in the jaw &c. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Also preserved at the site are the carnivorous dinosaur Ceratosaurus (6 teeth) and the small ornithopod dinosaur Othnielosaurus (one jaw fragment), the latter first identified during the 2008 season. Cooperative Management of Paleontological Resources on Federal Lands in Mesa County, Colorado
Here the devouring jaw is a symbol of corporeal disintegration; it reverses the process of reintegrating the perfected body and soul at the time of the Resurrection.
The implant material, made of highly biocompatible titanium, is inserted into the bone of the jaw.
Yet he still shudders when he recalls the incident which knocked out THREE front teeth and fractured his jaw. The Sun
The ornithomimids' beaked jaws were probably weak; it is thought that they may have been omnivorous, eating small animals and maybe some plant material.
Each tooth is divided into a crown that projects into the mouth and a root that is embedded into the jaws.
Fish with jaws usually have five functional pairs of gill arches.
He suffered burns to his hands and a broken jaw, and lost ‘a considerable amount of blood’.
Across the River Esk is a whale's jawbone arch, a reminder of the town's maritime history.
All animals in this order lack incisor and canine teeth, but they may have numerous simple molars in the backs of their jaws.
Another cause of jaw joint problems is previous jaw injuries, such as dislocation.
The man continued to stare, the muscles of his jaw flexing.
The tallest of the three had his jaws set hard, his green eyes glinting angrily.
These larvae are filter feeders and lack the characteristic jaw sheaths and denticles of many other frog larvae, but have characteristic barbels.
The result was an unlikely triumph plucked from the jaws of national humiliation. Times, Sunday Times
This jawless mouth sets the lamprey and its cousin the hagfish apart from all other modern vertebrates - animals with backbones.
Only a handful of endangered species, such as the Tecopa pupfish, the longjaw cisco, and the dusky seaside sparrow, have ever been taken off the list because they went extinct.
To get some insight into that, we called scientist Dennis Kujawski, a senior flavorist at International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. of New York, which has built a $2 billion-a-year business creating tastes and smells (though not with wine, which would say something like "contains flavorings" if it did include anything IFF produced). Putting Tastes Into Words
Na was born with no upper jaw bone or teeth, making eating and speaking very difficult.
It is a variation of growth and development and can affect a person's bite, ability to clean teeth properly, gingival health, jaw growth, speech development, and appearance.
His jaw fell; there was a remarkable exiguity about the coat which was inexplicable. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)
However, recently he was censured for dangling his baby son Bob near the open jaws of a crocodile and forced to make an apology to his millions of fans.
She struck her opponent a tremendous blow on the jaw.
He charged the man on the left, leading with his right fist and smashing it into the man's jaw dropping him to the floor.
Having just completed an audacious leap from aircraft into the jaws of death, five hundred feet above Munsan-ni, against a numerically superior and fanatical force, we were ready to return to K-2 Airstrip at Taegu. Lafayette Keaton
The latter (Fig. 17) comprise four incisors, two canines, four small grinders, called premolars or false molars, and six large grinders, or true molars, in each jaw -- making thirty-two in all. On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
The teeth of these people also, whatever they may suffer in their colour by chewing betel, are an object of great attention: The ends of them, both in the upper and under jaw, are rubbed with a kind of whetstone, by a very troublesome and painful operation, till they are perfectly even and flat, so that they cannot lose less than half a line in their length. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
He was rushed to hospital with a fractured eye socket, jaw and skull. The Sun
Leave it to the Democrats to once again snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. Rendell: 'Very unlikely' Clinton will win
No Boston painter would have attempted to settle an aesthetic difference like Luks did when he punched Edmund Tarbell in the jaw.
The containing group of jawed vertebrates and jawless fishes is vertebrata. A New Book
Recent modeling studies have focused on systems such as vertebrate jaws, limbs, tongues and tentacles and axial muscle.
Sadly, the goldeye were apparently exhibiting the kind of lockjaw that often comes with scudding clouds and falling barometers. Edmonton Sun
He set his jaw in a determined fashion.
Since when had Jaws, the film that inaugurated the summer blockbuster, been regarded as cult fodder?
His face was deeply lined and waxen, his jaw set determinedly.
Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats.
He has a strong square jaw.
Think of a carnivore animal evolving powerful jaws to catch and kill its prey.
Apart from the structure of the pelvis they characteristically had an additional bone at the front of the upper jaw, the predentary, which bore no teeth but acted like a beak for cropping vegetation.
Unlike all other jawed vertebrates, placoderms never had teeth, and did not descend from toothed ancestors.
The jaw is able to clench and chew because of the masseter muscle.
Milo had his eyes screwed shut in pain, jaw clamped tight shut lest he cried out.
He ended up with loads of stitches and a fractured collarbone and jaw. The Sun
The most complete fossil was that of an adult male skull lacking a lower jaw found embedded in ancient cemented sands.
Maybe that's why the Saudis told Bush to jump in the sand when he asked for more oil despite Bush's 2000 election promise to "jawbone" them into lowering oil prices. More Wall Street Profits, More Drilling, More Refineries, Less Innovation
Included are species with finely graded changes in the jaw anatomy.
Big oil will make more money and like we saw when Dubbyah ‘jawboned’ the price of gas down to 4 bucks a gallon [snark] the oil companies made a record profit. Think Progress » Bush Official Dan Bartlett Admits Authorizing Offshore Oil Drilling Will Be Unlikely To Win Over Any GOP Votes
The Elysium seas feature a large scavenger called a gaper, whose hinged jaw is easily capable of taking up a person in a single swallow. Old Mans War
You may never usually watch such lowculture television but, trust me, the twisted ending they've dreamed up is jaw-dropping.
In discussing this topic on the bus from Nicosia to Kyrenia en route to the conference dinner, Nick Jaworski pointed out, that if transfer were the explanation, why is it that his Turkish students willfully produce errors like * I went Antalya, when the analogous verb + prepositional phrase exists in Turkish (even if the preposition is attached as a suffix)? May « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT
The majority of jawbone intra-osseous lipomas are found in adults, and of uncertain origin and etiology but are usually associated with molar teeth.
The bony armor of the earliest jawless fish was dermal bone; so are shark scales, shoulder blades, and the roof of your skull.
Massive jaws sliced through his body like a knife through a stick of butter.
The shape of the skull began to retain more juvenile shape into adulthood, with a bigger brain and a smaller jaw.
When he saw the look of longing in her eyes towards the kiss Blake was sharing with his girlfriend his jaw tightened and he felt a sharp stab of jealousy.
Corresponding to the jaw is a built-up section, almost a facial codpiece, of iron and ebonite, perhaps housing a radio unit, thrusting forward in black fatality. Gravity's Rainbow
The jaw is deepest in the adductor fossa region and shallow anteriorly as a result of a pronounced medially-directed twist of the ventral margin such that the splenial is exposed ventrally and mesially.
They took my pulse, took my blood pressure, and X-rayed my jaw.
According to Von Meyer no mandibular tusks were present and most probably the jaw possessed a short elephantine symphysis.
Il grandissimo successo preoccup talmente tanto la Universal che tent in ogni maniera di bloccare le visioni del mio ... che epoch gi uscito in tutto il resto del mondo criminal il titolo Jaws 3 e maturando degli incassi record, e la casa di produzione stava preparando il suo Jaws 3 ... alla excellent di un mese di programmazione riescono the bloccare la visione del mio movie accusandolo di plagio. Archive 2009-11-01
Lukov was taken to the St. Ana hospital with a broken upper jaw, broken arm, medium brain injury and injuries in the extremities.
No Boston painter would have attempted to settle an aesthetic difference like Luks did when he punched Edmund Tarbell in the jaw.
The guide slowly led through the pass's jaws.
Brisbane (ANTARA News) - Konsulat RI di Darwin memperkenalkan permainan "gamelan", alat musik kas Jawa, kepada siswa dari sejumlah sekolah di Australia, melalui sebuah lokakarya seni budaya Nusantara. ANTARA - Berita Terkini
He's never found wanting technically, and there are some jaw-dropping displays of speed and power
The movie 'Jaws' is about a man-eating shark.
The positive allometry in both groups suggests that larger species loaded their jaws more heavily, because deeper jaws are much stronger in resisting loads applied dorsoventrally, as during jaw closure.
When tetrapods bite an object, their jaws are loaded somewhat as beams with the jaw joint acting as a fulcrum.
Adjustable pliers open to various widths, and the gripping surface of the jaw is grooved for a stronger hold.
The lower jaw of this form may have been edentulous and supported a gular sac, like that of a giant pelican or baleen whale.
Who in the heavens could match his pecs, his flawless jawline, his crystalline gaze?
I gave him a smack on the jaw.
‘I may see patients who need their jaws removed, jaw surgery for overbites and underbites, surgery on skeletal deformations, trauma patients that have suffered fractures and lacerations,’ Baker says.
Many catfishes are accomplished suction feeders with high volume expansion of the buccal cavity and fast jaws, whereas other taxa maximize bite force.
Like someone getting their jaw torn off, or a person getting cleaved in half by a sword dissection by bisection? Archive 2009-02-01
The new movie "Melancholia" is getting attention not just because it features Kirsten Dunst's comeback, Alexander Skarsgård's jawline and the end of the planet. Lighting Up Our Mental Ills
The primary skeletal difference between reptiles and mammals is found in the structure of their jaws.
My jaw hit the floor when the results came back that I was carrying a dormant cystic fibrosis gene. The Sun
They were also concerned that Mrs Holland had a livid bruise on her jaw and had lost a tooth as a result of an assault the previous week.
Just when you think that there is nothing that can surprise you any more in the crazy helter-skelter world that is Scottish football, along comes an event which makes your jaw drop.
But the chiefs still practised the old ways, the custom of hunakele, and hid the bones of the aliis where no men should find them and make fish-hooks of their jaws or arrow heads of their long bones for the slaying of little mice in sport. THE BONES OF KAHEKILI
If large body lengths are primitive for jawed fishes, which is also true for many placoderms, then a marked reduction in body size may have occurred with the origin of ray-finned fishes.
By the end, they're just something to jaw about by the campfire.
We'll have your family crest gripped in the jaws of a gigantic fish. Times, Sunday Times
Nathan reached out and trailed his thumb along her jaw.
An 18-year-old Korean boy, who had one side of his jawbone and most of his teeth removed due to a tumor, had stem cells taken from his bone marrow, which were then "multiplied and specialized to form an osteoblast which is a bone-forming cell. LifeSiteNews.com Headlines
Adam led with his left and punched his opponent on the jaw.
There, too, ranged species beyond species, are the extinct elephants; and there the ponderous skull of the dinotherium, with the bent tusks in its lower jaw, that give to it the appearance of a great pickaxe, and that must have dug deeply of old amid the liliaceous roots and bulbs of the Tertiary lakes and rivers. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
With your prominent cheekbones and square jaw, you need to soften your look by avoiding glasses that are sharp and angular. Times, Sunday Times
Unless you just want to stand here chin-jawing, that is. The Drawing of the Three
The temporalis, located in the temporal fossa of the skull, opens and closes the jaw, as does the masseter. Muscles Part 2
But not long after the photos were republished in Afghan newspaper, Jawad was out, with no official explanation. Recalled Afghan Ambassador Not Going Back, Criticizes Karzai And Obama
Why is it ok for BC player to come up and start "jawing" after a loss? Yahoo! Sports - Top News
Bind thy puggaree round thy jaw at night, lest thou babble in English in thy sleep," says he at parting. Fiancée
It is a black six-limbed panther from Hell, the size of a tractor trailer, with an armored head, a venomous striking tail, and massive distensible armored jaws.
Sock him on the jaw!
The jaw-bone, in few cases, is completely dislocated, for the zygomatic process formed from the upper jaw-bone (malar?) and the bone behind the ear (temporal?) shuts up the heads of the under jaw, being above the one (condyloid process?), and below the other On The Articulations
Stomiiformes is an order of deep-sea ray-finned fishes of very diverse morphology, including dragonfishes, lightfishes, marine hatchetfishes, viperfishes, and loosejaws.
In 2005, 230,000 nonsurgical procedures were carried out, compared with a jaw-dropping 472,000 in 2007. Times, Sunday Times
n. - state of being unable to swallow. adj. - having same male forefather; allied; Law, related on father's side; n. such relative. agnation, agnathous adj. - lacking jaws. agnathia, n. agnoiology Xml's Blinklist.com
In the former case the skull is said to be 'orthognathous' or straight-jawed; in the latter, it is called 'prognathous,' a term which has been rendered, with more force than elegance, by the Saxon equivalent, -- 'snouty.' On Some Fossil Remains of Man
Fiona, 43, had surgery earlier this year to tighten her sagging jawline.
On the night of the shooting, Jaw had been badgering her about her past relationships and insisted on seeing copies of recent e-mails.
His head flashed up, huge jaws distended, fangs gleaming, to sink into the slender, silken-hosed ankle above the tan low-cut shoes. CHAPTER XXVII
The ventral surface of the pouch is covered by grooved blubber, on which the 50-90 grooves extend from the jaw tips to as far posteriorly as the umbilicus. Archive 2006-10-01
Tetanus, also known as "lockjaw;" Diphtheria, an upper respiratory disease; and Pertussis, also known as "whooping cough. News for Opelika-Auburn News
Also because James Caan's "Chinee" joke never gets any less jaw droppingly offensive, no matter if you know its coming or however many times you've seen it. Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
The rough hand of the New World had been laid upon the Scotsman from his boyhood; but sterling honesty was written in every line of his bitter-seamed face, while a prognathous jaw proclaimed to the onlooker that honesty was the best policy, -- for the onlooker at any rate, should he wish to do business with the owner of the jaw. CHAPTER 6
The degree of projection of the jaws is determined by the gnathic or alveolar index, which represents the proportion between the basialveolar and basinasal lengths, thus: basialveolar length X 100/basinasal length56 II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
With his deep-set eyes, square jaw, 1950s hair and tight-jeans-and-T-shirt image he bears more than a passing resemblance to his father.
A hint of Long Island lockjaw crept into her voice, which I knew happened only in times of extreme stress.
In lock jaw, and in all convulsive conditions in which opium is prescribed in stupefactive doses.
Mrs Wilby said she had previously seen tetanus - often known as lockjaw - in animals.
How would you not know a member of your family?" asked the film's square-jawed producer, Dimitri Doganis , at a celebratory dinner at 350 Main. Scrounging for Swedish Fish at Sundance
When cancer robbed him of his lower jaw, it didn't stop his prolific output. Times, Sunday Times
She growled again, and a startled yipe followed when her jaw snapped. Touch of Evil
He returned his hired vessel, removed beard, turban, and aba behind a tree, and headed for the Amelia, scratching absently at his jaw. LORD OF THE SILENT
The sword pivoted across the beast's jaw and slid within the collarbone. Mercadian Masques
A pen was wedged between the soldier's jaws; the café owner called for a taxi with his cellular phone.
It warms necks and backs, resonates in jaws and temples, and rings in chests and legs. Richard Harvell's novel about 18th-century opera, "The Bells"
The pup was born with a narrow jaw which causes his lower teeth to stick out. The Sun
The girl looked at me, slack-jawed, and didn't even say ‘Cheers’, the typical London valediction.
Oh, and I observed World Turtle Day by reading "Anatomy of Condorchelys antiqua Sterli, 2008, and the origin of the modern jaw closure mechanism in turtles" in the March Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Insert [nothing witty] here.
CHARLESTON, SC - Veterinarians at the South Carolina Aquarium sea turtle hospital in Charleston say they've made great progress in helping a loggerhead turtle suffering from lockjaw. Anderson Independent Mail Stories
Recovering, he knocked his opponent down with a shrewd uppercut to the jaw, and fell upon him. LION IN THE VALLEY
The gonia-that's the area beneath your ears where the jawbone turns upward-generally curve more sharply in an Asian jaw. Slate Magazine
The first, or most anterior pre-molar of the lower jaw has one predominant cusp or cone; the second, like both in the upper jaw, is "bicuspid," or bi-tuberculate, as in man. More Science From an Easy Chair
I was in great surprise at seeing the mouth of Unknown, so much surpassing in horror the jaws of upper Hell, I could hear a prodigious noise of arms, and loud discharges from one side, answered by what seemed to be hoarse thunders from the other; the rocks of Death, meanwhile, rebellowing the tumult. The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
Then turn both top and bottom plates on their sides and put them together using large jaw clamps.
The pup was born with a narrow jaw which causes his lower teeth to stick out. The Sun
The caries located at the top of the root of the second premolar diffused to the first molar and finally caused and abcess in the jaw. a-Tarter located at the border between the crown and the roots of the incisors of the maxillar. b-Infection of the bone tissue causing recession of the alveolar bone. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Biological Anthropology Report 1
A toothache racked my jaw.
And while jawless vertebrates were present in the Cambrian, it was not until the Ordovician that armored fish became common enough to leave a rich fossil record.
He said nothing, but the tight set of his jaw made it quite clear that he did not approve of what he considered direct defiance of his wishes.
The pitcher stared down Pat Burrell after a called third strike to end the first, and Burrell jawed at Halladay while sprinkling in profanities. Phillies Extend NLCS With Game 5 Victory, Giants Lead 3-2
She squared her jaw and turned, feeling foolishly coward.
He socked his opponent on the jaw.
He delivered a right hook to his opponent's jaw.
The parotid salivary glands, which produce saliva for the mouth, are found toward the back of each cheek, in the area between the ear and jaw.
Ken Arromdee says: jabberjaw: You know if I was “in a bunker under fire”, I don’t think my first thought would we which guy can I hiton. The Volokh Conspiracy » Light at the End of the DADT Tunnel
That heroine of Assassins had distended her jaws and throat and belly by means of Polymorphine, like a python.
They look vaguely similar to the sharks of Jaws infamy, huge midriffs tapering to a point at snout and tail.
His cap cast a shadow over the top part of his face and accentuated the slightly angular shape of his jaws.
Face Mask What It ' s For: A severe anterior crossbite, or underbite with the lower jaw outgrowing the upper jaw The 8-Year-Old With a Perfect Smile
When I told him, he probably dislocated his jaw.
Men began to say that he 'jawed' too much and would not let them go to bed, little knowing how he used to try to prolong a conversation so that he might not be left alone with a horrible fear always ready to pounce upon him when night fell, and when only the thud of the engines playing some maddening tune broke the silence. Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir
The only legal leg-hold traps nowadays are designed to hold the animal and must allow some space between the jaws of the trap so the animal still feels its leg and thus won't eat it off to get out of the trap.
Shortly after the discharge is seen a swelling takes place under the jaw, or in the intermaxillary space. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
Finally, the bucking pipe is gripped by the mechanical jaws of a massive clamp.
Place your socked foot on the luxurious green base and use the left hand jaw of the bootjack to remove the left hand boot.

How To Use Jaw In A Sentence

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