jaws

Example Sentences

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On a recent afternoon, volunteers bustled around the museum wheeling carts of jaws and vertebrae carefully organized by species.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Loggerhead turtles have large heads and powerful jaws, giving them the ability to feed on hard-shelled prey.

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026

City only managed to snatch a draw from the jaws of defeat at Everton, but how vital could that point be in three weeks' time?

From BBC • May 4, 2026

Even so, these isolated jaws revealed something remarkable.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

As Orde-Lees had reached the opposite side of the floe, the leopard seal burst up out of the water in front of him, jaws agape.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong