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Example sentences for "paws"

Lexicographically close words:
pawns; pawnshop; pawnshops; pawpaw; pawpaws; pay; payable; paycheck; payd; payday
  1. Before her, far away across the moonlit plain the Bear Paws loomed in mysterious grandeur.

  2. Above the edge of the rim-rocks the high-flung peaks of the Bear Paws belied the half-night's ride that separated them from the isolated Antelope Butte.

  3. A loud, long yell of terror, accompanied by violent and despairing struggles, like a wild beast tearing from the paws of a lion, was the only answer returned by the miserable being.

  4. Monkey jumped out of his box, and, laying down his stick, ran across the table and shook paws with a beautiful Candy Rabbit, who had a pink nose and pink glass eyes.

  5. Puss pulled them out, burning her paws very much in doing so.

  6. The butterfly hovers over the flowers and finds it; but such a learned German appears to me like a bear, who clumsily puts his paws into a bee-hive and then licks them.

  7. Amongst the treasures of Rugilas, it had found the golden imperial globe, which had made part of the booty at Byzantium; this it held in its paws and played with it, rolling it about on the floor.

  8. Makar approached, sniffed, and laid his paws on the bed.

  9. Makar, the bear, approached, laid his heavy paws on his chest, and amicably sniffed at his body.

  10. With consternation, the crew of the frail craft observed the advance of this dangerous messmate, for if he laid but one of his paws upon the side, overladen as she was already, she must inevitably sink by the increased weight.

  11. His pursuer was close on his heels, but as soon as he saw his immovable companion, who was covered with snow, his front paws alone being visible, he stopped short, and approached him.

  12. The bears would amble along, peel great handfuls of ripe berries from the bushes with their big clawed paws and eat them.

  13. The great big bear put his big paws around the little boy and squeezed him, squeezed him, tighter and tighter and tighter--till the little boy who wouldn't mind his mother was changed into a tiny black bat.

  14. One was about a big black dog that used to come in her room every night durin' full moon and put its paws on her bed.

  15. The dog was standing on the thwart forward, resting his paws on the gunwale, and watching the flight of the gulls.

  16. This to the collie, which reared up to put its paws upon his chest, and rubbed its head against its master; while the little dog ran round and round clumsily, barking all the while.

  17. The big fellow drowsed in the firelight, his four paws stretched evenly toward the man.

  18. Now Skag noticed that the dog moved with some effort, possibly with some pain; but when he arrived, Nels reared his mighty body and set his paws on Skag's two shoulders.

  19. In a few seconds a cloud-bank appears on the horizon and one or two cats-paws are seen shooting over the water.

  20. At last they appeared to realize that they were pitted against the terrible fire tube of the white man as well as the steel-shod paws of the bear.

  21. We once saw a harmless young alligator, whose dying struggles, as he threw out his poor little black paws piteously like human hands, seemed to be vastly diverting to these cultivated individuals.

  22. She walks the deck; and tick, tick, pitapat, go the four little paws after her.

  23. A large prayer-book, whose type or binding offended him in some way or other, he took up with his paws and very carefully dropped through the scuttle, to refresh the souls of the fishes below.

  24. And straightway, there on the window-sill His paws were laid, with dusty meal Powdered from toe to heel.

  25. You will know him by his voice so hoarse, By his paws so hairy and black and coarse.

  26. And he was just going up and shake paws when Uncle Wiggily cried: "Look out, Johnnie!

  27. With his strong paws and his sharp teeth, the rabbit gentleman began peeling the bark off the tree, showing the white wood underneath.

  28. The fox put his paws under the sassafras root.

  29. I can't answer because my paws are all covered with soapy-suds dishwater.

  30. Her hind paws slipped and into the mud puddle she fell with her new dress.

  31. But the sick Oriental kitten, reversing the Occidental order of kitten things, cuddles up to a water-monkey, and fondly embraces the refreshing evaporation of its beaded bulb with all her paws and all her bushy tail.

  32. The snout fitted upon his head, bordering his face with a circle of fangs; the two fore-paws were crossed upon his breast, and the claws of the hinder ones fell beneath his knees.

  33. The lions were resting with their breasts against the ground and both paws stretched out, winking their eyelids in the bright daylight, which was heightened by the reflection from the white rocks.

  34. I tumbles out and paws around for the extension.

  35. That's right; keep your paws up," says I.

  36. It was a race between our endurance and his greed, and his greed won, for at last he lay down with the sausage between his paws and we fell on him from behind and captured our own.

  37. A blow, two blows, with enormous paws whose claws gleamed like skewers, whistling half-an-inch above his ducked head!


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paws" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.