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jaws

noun as in maw

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Brittany Furlan, the wife of Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, posted Ring video footage to Instagram of her saving her dachshund Neena from a coyote’s jaws.

Col Yevgeny Sasyko, a former head of strategic communications with Ukraine’s general staff, said Russia places “powerful jaws” around the flanks of a city that slowly “grind though” defences until they collapse.

From BBC

The dinosaur’s jaws close around its prize.

Alfred's father and another man in the group managed to prise his head from its jaws.

From BBC

“He escaped the jaws of death only to die, presumably, by himself on the sidewalk — one of the six people who die every day in the city of Los Angeles unhoused. He had a desire to live.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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