jaws
Example Sentences
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University of Sydney researchers have shown it is possible to shield plants from the hungry maws of herbivorous mammals by fooling them with the smell of a variety they typically avoid.
From Science Daily • Feb. 2, 2024
Unfortunately, there are currently very few options for meaningfully keeping data out of the maws of AI models.
From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2023
They were stuffing their maws with food like pigs at a trough.
From Salon • Aug. 11, 2023
Weirdness has its own conventions; horror makes much of ichor and tentacles, of slithering and maws in the wrong places.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2023
In the blackness underneath, between the rows of boilers, were the stoking-pits, in which fourteen fires, each raging at a fierce white heat, glowed angrily like the red cavernous maws of legendary monsters.
From By Right of Conquest A Novel by Hornblow, Arthur