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Example sentences for "jawing"

Lexicographically close words:
javelins; jaw; jawbone; jawbones; jawed; jaws; jays; jazz; jealous
  1. I shall need something to keep me from "jawing and meddling around the town"; why not white paper and a good stub pen, while I smoke and muse of my former usefulness.

  2. When money is to be paid and received, there is always some vehement jawing and gesticulating about it.

  3. When we were dismounted and it came to settling, the shouting and jawing and swearing and quarreling among the muleteers and with us was nearly deafening.

  4. Then Desmond burst out with Irish vehemence-- "Egerton is always jawing about breeding.

  5. They had quite a jawing match and finally Archie said that he would bet Small ten dollars.

  6. I learned later that their twosome wound up in a jawing match on the sixteenth green, in which Uncle George had all the better of it because he couldn't hear any of the things that Henry called him.

  7. I like you jawing about discipline," said Mike morosely.

  8. And then I heard Burgess and Spence jawing on the steps.

  9. Now don't put any stopper on that jawing tackle of yours; go right on.

  10. He's been working his jawing tackle for the last ten minutes steady.

  11. Now then--confound it all, are you fellows going to stand jawing all day?

  12. What under the sun did a fellow like Donald want with a wife who would prove him wrong about a cosine, and keep him up jawing about Mrs. Gilman till two o'clock in the morning?

  13. Oh I wish somebody else had done it,” he said, “for I missed Owlers jawing the seal.

  14. Oh nothing, but we’re just jawing about cribbing.

  15. It was no use trying not to laugh: the idea of Owlers jawing the seal was too much for Maddox, and the three went off into peals of laughter.

  16. She didn't give him much of an answer though, for her head was chuck full of the tall chap's soft sodder, and she didn't know more than half of what he was a jawing about.

  17. It would be only foolish sort of jawing for me to say how much I love Stella.

  18. I'll give Dick a good jawing about it yet.

  19. Chips was in there, jawing away about the match, and the prospect of a wicket after Jan's own heart at last.

  20. And there was that fool Chips, jawing away as usual to anybody who would listen, about anything and everything except the sports.

  21. I don't hear nothing," sais I, "but two Frenchmen ashore a jawing like mad.

  22. Why don't you say what the date of it is, instead of jawing about the creepers and leaded windows, which I expect are modern.

  23. He was a great plague," interpolated Adrian, "always jawing about the hall-door.

  24. Now, Scrumpy, you've got jawing tackle that will stand in any weather.

  25. Presently the girls went away, and we heard them jawing in their room.

  26. And all the grown-ups look on and admire, and think that their incessant jawing has produced this improvement.

  27. If we stop jawing here long we'll never sail from Shanghai before next year.

  28. At best he had no sympathy for the interminable jawing that went on under his eyes.

  29. An interminable jawing back and forth--lawyers, defendants, witnesses and more lawyers.

  30. Or are you going to spend the whole evening jawing with that infernal young sweep.

  31. We've no time to waste jawing with any blighted dog-stealer like you.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jawing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abuse; assault; attack; berating; carping; contumely; diatribe; execration; invective; jawing; onslaught; palaver; philippic; prattle; rating; tirade; vilification; vituperation