Example sentences for: jaws

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

  • And that is why Gingrich and Dole did not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

  • has a visual energy all its own--a blizzard of boulders, the village blanketed with mauve ash, a bridge cracking apart and dumping its cargo of cars into a river" (Joe Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). "The stupid thing gets the job done" (David Denby, New York ). Critics interpret the sudden outcropping of natural-disaster movies as nostalgia for the '70s and films such as The Poseidon Adventure and Jaws , "some of whose plot elements have been recycled here," says Denby.

  • Emmerich cribs his basic suspense techniques (the low-angle camera riding in on open-mouthed spectators) from Spielberg's Jaws and Jurassic Park , his egg imagery from Alien , his marauding baby dinosaurs from Gremlins , and a scene of the U.S.

  • ..When crocodiles open their jaws wide, tears are shed automatically from their eyes.

  • Equally fantastic are wolf-eels with crab-cracking jaws.


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