- past tense form of see.
saw
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After throwing his first touchdown pass to Cordero on fourth down, Coleman saw his 300-pound teammate, Kingston Williams, moving toward him in a celebratory mood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
They considered locations across Europe, before deciding on Scotland after Savannah saw photographs of a castle wedding online.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
On July 29, the group saw its share price plunge by as much as 11 percent during the session on the day it released its half-year results.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
"When levels of the enzyme fell, we saw more damaged cells and injury to the liver."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
How could I have been so stupid to think that he’d see me and what I want, the same way I saw him?
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Performance and illusion are recurring themes: A woman is sawed in half in a depiction of classic stagecraft; elsewhere a juggler manipulates ovoids that each contain an everyday vignette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
He came, he sawed, he conq—well, he left.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2025
First, it was just a limb sawed from a tree at a North Figueroa Street intersection on April 13.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
For the majority of Americans, one of those legs has been effectively sawed off without an available pension.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024
Gregor sawed away at the bread, managing to get eighteen slices out of one loaf.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
Emergency workers stood on the charred roof, still smelling of burning, sawing off damaged sections and tossing the debris into a pile.
From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026
The high-pitched sound of an angle grinder sawing through glass echoed through the hall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
This felt manageable until I found myself, a few weeks in, sawing at a kabocha squash with a butter knife.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2025
He said: "The finances aren't good, the margins are wafer thin. It's a lot of sawing for not much sawdust, as my grandfather used to say."
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
Kendra began sawing the stem of a tall orange pumpkin.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
It had been in my family for three generations — an upright of quarter sawn oak that probably hadn’t been properly tuned for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2025
He said his lifelong love affair with theatre stemmed in part from seeing his sister being sawn in half as a conjuror's assistant at a local music hall.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
The Customs Department said in a statement it discovered the contraband hidden behind sawn timber following checks on July 10 on a ship coming from Africa.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2022
Rift sawn white oak flooring grounds the space.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 10, 2022
The shelves on which they stood smelled of freshly sawn wood.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
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