jaws

Example Sentences

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When you rolled over, you could watch sea horses and shells and the open jaws of the giant clams with polka-dot fish racing through them.

From Literature

As a manager, you are thrust almost immediately into the jaws of our unforgiving media and questions about tactics, substitutions and your team's overall performance are fired at you, sometimes under severe pressure.

From BBC

The Dragon lowered its head and opened its jaws.

From Literature

The ability to rescue victory from the jaws of defeat, to conjure three points from the ashes.

From BBC

Then the beetle seeks out an ant — climbing on top of it, clasping its antennae in its jaws and scooping up its pheromones with brush-like legs.

From Los Angeles Times