Example sentences for: jaw

How can you use “jaw” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Friends die laughing--that is, they laugh a mandíbula batiente `with their lower jaw beating'-- when we tell them of' the pleasures of living a short distance out of town.

  • If this were a Rube Goldberg contraption, this recollection would remind the writer of the grease spot on page 2, caused by his having eaten a Big Mac, the memory of which conjures up such a vivid image that the writer opens his mouth to take a bite, and a string attached to his lower jaw releases a mouse, the sight of which arouses a cat which chases it, causing the mouse to squeal, awakening a midget who stretches, tripping open a trapdoor; through the trapdoor falls a usage book, sliding down a chute into the hands of the writer.

  • Each animal rubs the lower portion of its jaw on a gland in the other's mid-dorsum.

  • Try to communicate that the jaw's constant movement up and down is not attractive and sends the wrong message.

  • When the older child makes a grab for it, I say, a nervous twitch in my jaw and a certain tightness in my voice, "There is no interesting news."


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