sawtooth

Example Sentences

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It even uses thinner shoelaces, using a grippy sawtooth pattern that helps them stay tied.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 19, 2026

One can see that implied volatility increases into a spike and then plunges, creating a sawtooth pattern.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

Before long, those electronic textures seeped into her music, with bass drops and drum loops adding raw energy to her sawtooth guitar riffs.

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2024

Serrated polyps are so-called because of their sawtooth appearance under a microscope.

From Science Daily • Dec. 13, 2023

But they were attacked by a monster with milk-blue eyes and sawtooth skin and teeth like spears jutting from its lower jaw.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee