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Example sentences for "jawed"

Lexicographically close words:
javelin; javelins; jaw; jawbone; jawbones; jawing; jaws; jays; jazz
  1. Then he knelt down and softly stroked the fierce, open-jawed head of the dead lion.

  2. A sunburned, firm-jawed youth, stained by travel, lay upon the bed puffing at a brown cigarette.

  3. His honest, lantern-jawed face was gray and drawn.

  4. He greets the grumpy checkroom tyrant like a friend and brother, and has just slipped him a cigar when a husky-built square-jawed gent steps up behind and taps Alvin familiar on the shoulder.

  5. Nothin' much, I guess," he replied without breaking the rhythm of his long-jawed chewing of a match.

  6. The trip from Red Oak had been humiliating as well as exhausting, but now the iron-jawed old man almost gloried in his helplessness.

  7. When that long-winded woman jawed for nearly an hour, d'you mean?

  8. But cheer up, Ger, it'll soon be time for the pater to go abroad, and then nobody will get jawed for six long weeks.

  9. So long," said the lantern-jawed boy lugubriously, dropping most of his mathematical books.

  10. In the corridor Michael caught up the lantern-jawed boy who had prophesied this year's pleasure at the beginning of last autumn.

  11. I'll shout for you, when I think you've jawed long enough.

  12. That loose-jawed fellow in the street last night--there must be thousands of such, talking until their jaws hang loose like worn-out gates.

  13. The words and the talking have but bred a loose-jawed race.

  14. She sho' did put me in min' er my Miss Ann when she wa' a gal, the way she hilt up her haid an' jawed back at the fambly.

  15. Then he turned to the wall, and lay down sullenly, scowling at the lantern-jawed sympathiser who tried to thrust a rolled-up coat under his aching head.

  16. Then he went back to the Hospital, grim-jawed and inscrutable as ever.

  17. The undulation of the waves after a gale; long hollow-jawed sea; ground-swell.

  18. He was a lantern-jawed giant with the powerful frame of a longshoreman, and he laughed in pleasure as he collected his money.

  19. He stopped in his tracks, staring dangle-jawed at the immense city facing them.

  20. Well, the iron-jawed man he laughed right in his face.

  21. His better half was a big, square-jawed woman with a determined eye.

  22. He was well-built, active, strong-jawed and good-natured.

  23. The light showed a pale, square-jawed face with keen eyes, and a little white scar near his right eyebrow.

  24. We'll know before the day is out whether we have caught our big, lean-jawed pike, or whether he has got through the meshes.

  25. Already I seemed to see our nets drawing closer around that lean-jawed pike.

  26. Well that nite after father got home he jawed me and said i coodent go down town for a week and made me go to J.

  27. She jawed me and said she wood tell father.

  28. The top of a near-by rock detached itself, drew up into a hunched thing of armor-plated scales and heavy wide-jawed head.

  29. The pugnacious, strong-jawed slave-hunter is utterly lost two steps away from her party.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jawed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    clawed; dentate; digital; fanged; prehensile; raptorial; toothed