How to Use paw in a Sentence
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Both have eyes and snouts, tails and paws, four legs and fur.
—Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
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Feel free to wear your C-paw sweatshirt and root for the black-and-gold.
—Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2023
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Palik was shot in the leg and his dog was also shot in the paw.
—Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2022
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The shelter said the foothold traps did not cut deep into the dog’s paws.
—Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
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Cat paws have scent glands that will mark the blanket as their own.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2023
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The cat sits on the floor in the room’s middle, calmly licking one paw.
—Jane Hirshfield, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
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In the video, Alali revealed a tattoo on her ribcage of Mochi's paw print.
—Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2022
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The skull, backbone and paws were the size of an average adult boar.
—Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
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If your hand can’t take the heat, neither can your dog’s bare paws.
—Rowan Moore Gerety, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
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Symptoms of the virus include fever, cough, eye and nose discharge, swelling of the paw pads and more.
—Mary Lebus, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2023
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Some of his teeth were missing and one paw appeared to be swollen.
—Emily Anthes Andres Kudacki, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
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The paw left behind four scratches spreading from the top of the man’s head to near his right ear.
—Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2023
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Rescuers found Rocky dog-tired and with an injury to one of his paws, per The Guardian.
—Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
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That's because the iPhone played a role in getting these pups back on their paws.
—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
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There are fingerprints — and a paw print, and a hoof mark — in the handmade bricks, and tool marks in planks.
—Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
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Then the big cat lunges forward and slams its sizable paws against the window with a thud.
—Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
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The second photo in the carousel showed the pooch sweetly placing her paw on Amos’ hand.
—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
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Be sure to keep them in a cool, dry place that is out of reach from curious hands or paws.
—Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
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The glands on your dog’s paws and its nose are called eccrine glands, and all mammals have these, too.
—Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
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With its front two paws in the air, back erect, the creature looks from side to side across a crowd of zoo visitors.
—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
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On the trip to Loki's new abode, the dog reached out a paw to Arellano and placed it on his new pet parent's hand.
—Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
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As was our car on the drive back — despite the probable frostbite in our hands (and paws).
—Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
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Others want to take an adorable paw or floppy ear and pretend to eat it.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
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In one photo, a ballet dancer in a white dress and tiara reaches down to shake the paw of a rescue pup.
—Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
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The first frame Chadwick shared shows the bear clinging to the neck of the cow moose with its paws, while blood dribbles from a wound on the moose’s shoulder.
—Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
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There are many types of boots dogs can wear to prevent them from burning their paws on the hot pavement.
—Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2023
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Tape wooden sticks to gardening gloves to make a cat's paw.
—WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
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Our dog jumped all over it with dirty paws, but the stains came out of the upholstery easily.
—Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2023
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The mammal is perched on the dinosaur, its paws gripping the reptile's jaw and a hind limb while its teeth plunge into the ribcage.
—Maddie Burakoff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023
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The mammal is perched on the dinosaur, its paws gripping the reptile’s jaw and a hind limb while its teeth plunge into the ribcage.
—Maddie Burakoff, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
- The celebrity couple was pawed by a mob of adoring fans.
- A crowd of customers was pawing over the remaining sales items.
- She claims that her boss got drunk and tried to paw her at the company Christmas party.
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In one image, the cougar is seen pawing at the front door.
—Katherine Lam, Fox News, 31 July 2018
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Half a dozen excavators roared and pawed at the rust-red ground.
—The Economist, 8 Feb. 2020
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Same goes for soybeans, and if the snow isn’t too deep, deer will paw it away to get to waste grain in both corn and bean fields.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2023
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Black bears will defend their young and have been known to paw and bite tents with food inside.
—CBS News, 10 July 2017
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The leopard jumped partway into the vehicle, scratched the leg of the tourist, and pawed and bit at his shoe.
—Richie Hertzberg, National Geographic, 21 May 2018
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Pups at that age wake up every few hours to whine and paw any warm body within reach.
—James Gorman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
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Two frisky felines, Frank and Maria, pawed at each through the planks of one of two bridges that spanned a picture window.
—Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2018
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Videos showed him pawing at doors, flopping out on the ground and peering through the glass of his confines.
—Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2019
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The shelter posted a video of the determined Quilty cat trying to paw his way out of his cell.
—Melissa Locker, Time, 6 Nov. 2019
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No more pawing through the spice cabinet in search of the AWOL coriander.
—Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 11 Sep. 2019
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Now Oladipo looks like a bull, backing up and pawing at the dirt and spotting a glint of red and just storming toward the rim.
—Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 16 Apr. 2018
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Standing at the gate, pawing and neighing, then eager to come into the barn and not just for their food. ...
—Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
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These are toys where a dog must push something around until a treat falls out or must paw open a latch to gain access to a treat.
—Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2017
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Mila did find some areas that smelled enough like truffles to mark the spot by pawing the ground.
—Ellen Garrison, sacbee, 24 Dec. 2017
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All the lines to and from the world, all the hungry beings clawing and sucking and pawing at it, everything cut off.
—David Canfield, EW.com, 17 July 2019
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Seconds after the feline lands on the lawn, the coyote returns and tries to paw closer to the house, edging onto the grass near Kevin.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2021
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Last Monday, the black cat pawed all over the turf and (kind of) scored a touchdown before being herded off the field and into the hearts of millions.
—Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 11 Nov. 2019
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One pooch starts licking Louie's toe while the other licks his hand, pawing clumsily at the tot.
—Christina Oehler, Woman's Day, 31 July 2015
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All that careful counting and pawing through the register for change is slow.
—Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2019
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Now Tyler is back in the kitten room at the ACS, among other young felines who paw and meow when prospective adopters walk in.
—Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 1 July 2019
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Eventually, Bolles was told that the Funks had pawed through his bank accounts and wiretapped his phones to dig up dirt on him.
—AZCentral.com, 2 Nov. 2019
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An Uber driver who paws away at an iPhone mounted on a dashboard isn’t captured.
—Kyle Stock, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
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TatorTot was on his bed, barking and pawing at him, licking his face.
—Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 2 May 2017
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The thirsty koala pawed at the empty bottle when the firefighter pulled it away, appearing to be amused by the plastic vessel.
—Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 23 Dec. 2019
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Sam’s two oldest daughters start to paw at her feet for attention.
—Rachel Syme, New Republic, 19 Oct. 2017
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The dogs are crossbred from sociable huskies and hardier Greenland dogs and are baying and pawing for attention.
—Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
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Trenches, a few foundations and an excavator pawing at a mountain of dirt are the only indication that, if all goes to plan, this will be the site of 90 new townhomes next year.
—Ben Christopher, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2023
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