maw
Example Sentences
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Some ingredients commonly found in Chinese fine dining include qi-boosting gelatinous fish maw, collagen-rich bird’s nest and nutrient-dense sea cucumber.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2025
Nothing has come from months of sending my applications into the gaping maw of a broken ATS.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Moments later, it emerged as a landscape denuded of all color save brown and gray and the occasional red-rimmed maw of a destroyed brick rooftop.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
If this much solar mass in a young universe was annually being forever lost into the gaping maw of a black hole, it would be less unusual.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2024
Or perhaps you went back to your book, eager to get as far away as possible from that yawning maw that seemed so unimaginable, so utterly unimportant.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Vocabulary lists containing maw
Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Odyssey
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