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Example sentences for: maw

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The cover story tracks four narcissistic young actors as they claw through Hollywood's casting maw.
Seamus Heaney's poem The Little Canticles of Asturias, which appeared in the debut issue of SLATE, contains a mesmerizing image of a "smouldering maw/ of a pile of newspapers lit long ago," fanning "up in the wind, breaking off and away/ in flame-posies, small airborne fire-ships."
Having previously agreed to voluntary standards, the furniture industry finds itself stuck in the regulatory maw.
2, is hurt and angry at the system for making him feel bad about himself all his life and perpetuating evil, unattainable images of thinness to get him addicted to its demonic diet drugs and make him sick and miserable; plus it's not just him but men and especially women all over America who are falling victim to the greedy maw of the medical-industrial conspiracy.
Taylor thus finds himself dropped into the maw of a journalistic ethics controversy.