lockjaw
Example Sentences
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If the fungi could cure lockjaw, he’d feel a softening in those joints.
From Literature
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You couldn’t be tongue-tied nor catch a case of lockjaw, or Tansy would give you an F. She was quick with her F’s.
From Literature
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He was arrested in the early hours of 9 April in a car park near Stoke Mandeville Hospital, where he had gone to be treated for "lockjaw".
From BBC
If someone tells you “I don’t like eating MSG because I get headaches” or “I get lockjaw” or whatever symptoms they have, then don’t say they are racist or imagining it.
From Seattle Times
Stewart knew that taking on “Spencer” would be a challenge, and in the days leading up to the shoot, she even developed lockjaw as she ceaselessly practiced her British accent.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.