jawbone
Example Sentences
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Titanium posts will be inserted into his jawbone, serving as new roots for the teeth.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026
Because the mosasaur tooth, the T. rex tooth, and the crocodylian jawbone all date to roughly the same time, about 66 million years ago, the scientists could directly compare their chemistry.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025
It was found alongside a tooth from a Tyrannosaurus rex and a jawbone from a crocodylian, in a region already known for fossils of the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025
The tooth, from a cow's jawbone found beside the ancient monument's south entrance in 1924, was analysed by scientists from the British Geological Society, Cardiff University and University College London.
From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025
She is close enough that I can see the small pink veins, like seams on the back of a delicate leaf, spreading across her cheeks, the downy fur on her jawbone, her bristly black eyebrows.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
