iron-jawed
Example Sentences
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Damien Chazelle’s film about the iron-jawed, ice-water-in-the-veins pilot and astronaut Neil Armstrong is a rocket pointed directly at the distant planet known as Awards Season.
From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2018
His face is stolid, meaty, neither iron-jawed nor glamorously gaunt.
From Time • Feb. 9, 2012
The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted in: "The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks."
From Time Magazine Archive
At last, the state had an iron-jawed, copper-bellied football team that combed its hair with lightning and ate opposing tackles for breakfast.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thomas jumped as a terrible crash sounded right outside their door, accompanied by screams and the splintering of wood, like some iron-jawed monster was eating the entire stairwell.
From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner
