How to Use maw in a Sentence

maw

noun
Definition of mawnext
Synonyms for mawnext
  • The bowl was its gaping maw, the hinges of the seat were its piercing eyes.
    — Christie D'zurilla Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The pike rose, opened its maw, and vacuumed up the fly.
    — Colin Kearns, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2020
  • At one point, blood can be seen drooling from one of the bear’s maws.
    — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 9 May 2023
  • Suddenly, all sounds drop away in the face of that silent maw.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Even something as innocuous as the name of a blog gets caught in the maw.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2013
  • Outside the rain runs down the windows: Lead men on rooftops spout it from their maws.
    — Thomas Mallon, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The next chore was squeezing goo from a tube into each dog’s maw.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • That mouth — a gaping maw ringed with teeth — is a clue to Cambroraster’s spot on the Tree of Life.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2019
  • This weekend, it's been a popular refuge for the Coachellans who want to stay in one place and avoid the maw at the main stages.
    — Gerrick Kennedy, latimes.com, 16 Apr. 2017
  • These new coin mining cards are just more food for that hungry maw.
    — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 28 June 2017
  • The music world was a kind of aperitif for the maw of digital.
    — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2010
  • The critter opens wide, and Womer shoves his head toward the gaping maw.
    — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 26 June 2017
  • Then two hikers wearing headlamps emerged from the cave’s dark maw.
    — Bruce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2022
  • One of my goals is to activate the Bloom’s maw and travel to another world.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The scientists prepped for their descent into the maw of the Greenland ice sheet by drilling deep into the ice.
    — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2020
  • Out there in the Universe right now there are small clusters being sucked helplessly in the maw of large ones.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Voigt used that hole to string an electrical cord with a red light to show off the creature’s icicle teeth and blood-red maw.
    — cleveland, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The wood held him in the maw of the river's hydraulic force as water pounded over his head, often bending him at the waist.
    — James Bennett, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The tar whale screeched and eldritch tentacles burst from its face, forming a maw designed to drag me into the world of the dead.
    — Matthew Gault, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The gaping maw of the blank doorway had stood on the shore road for years as invitation to the miseries banked within.
    — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Back in those days, Black people ate high blood pressure — hog maws and pig noses and all kinds of s—. And everybody smoked.
    — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
  • With a gaping maw and uneven, jagged teeth, its appearance is the stuff of nightmares.
    — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The Pynk, in the fictional town of Chucalissa, in the Mississippi Delta, is a refuge and a maw, a heaven and a hell.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
  • After a summer stuffing her maw with salmon that were hers and hers alone, Beadnose has the blubber to show for it.
    — Karin Brulliard, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
  • First the whales gulp vast amounts of seawater into their massive maw.
    — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Hanging from the ceiling is a potted Asian pitcher plant, its long fleshy cups dangling over the pot’s edges, maws agape.
    — Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post, 3 July 2019
  • And the Venus fly trap didn’t react to a stimulus similar to a bug crawling across its maw.
    — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
  • Some drivers admire the aggressive maw and the visual effect of bearing down on the road.
    — John Scott Lewinski, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2018
  • The fingerprints of certain gases in the spectra of the visible light can reveal what kind of star went down the black hole’s maw.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Even to merely list, in oblique terms, a few of the basic problems of schools of all kinds in this country is to stare into the maw of a culture in decline.
    — New York Times, 6 July 2022

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