the jaws of death

noun phrase

: dying or being killed
He barely escaped from the jaws of death.

Examples of the jaws of death in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Everyone has a cousin or a boyfriend’s sister or a friend of a friend who claims to have almost been in, say, the Twin Towers during 9/11, or having narrowly escaped the jaws of death through a twist of providence that saved them from certain doom. Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 26 June 2023

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“The jaws of death.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20jaws%20of%20death. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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