Examples of maw in a Sentence
the gaping maw of the tiger
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Bookshop landed at just the right time to provide something of a crutch for struggling bookstores and offer an alternative to funneling more money into Amazon’s maw.
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Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2025
Against a black void, there’s a big spray of crimson—a cascade of blood, perhaps—placed beside a gaping maw.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
One led me down into the dark maw of an underground cellblock, which connected the two buildings.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The material that doesn't fall into the maw of the central black hole can be channeled to the poles of the black hole.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
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Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 28 Jan. 2025
Against a black void, there’s a big spray of crimson—a cascade of blood, perhaps—placed beside a gaping maw.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
One led me down into the dark maw of an underground cellblock, which connected the two buildings.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The material that doesn't fall into the maw of the central black hole can be channeled to the poles of the black hole.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Maw.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maw. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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maw
noun1
: a body part (as a stomach or a crop) that receives swallowed food
2
: the throat, gullet, or jaws especially of a flesh-eating animal
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