How to Use jawed in a Sentence

jawed

adjective

• Barkhuff—square-jawed, dark-haired, and blunt—made two spots.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2020
• The other scowls, bug-eyed and open-jawed, as if caught in mid-shout.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• That’s about four hours a day of being sedentary, slack-jawed, and glassy-eyed.
  — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 19 Jan. 2021
• Certain short- or snub-nosed dogs and cats, as well as strong-jawed dog breeds, will be banned.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 May 2018
• Siegfried was 20 years old, strong-jawed, and working as a first-class steward.
  — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• A few weeks later, the Texans have what may be the NFL’s best offense, to the slack-jawed amazement of the entire league.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• My son wasn’t athletic but could tie about any knot and catch fish while adults watched slack-jawed.
  — WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• Sandoval props himself on his arm and just stares at it, slack-jawed and drooling.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2021
• At 39, Poncet is blond, block-jawed, and quiet, with enormous hands.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• That’s the true American spirit, the sort of square-jawed guy that goes off into the wilderness and forges his future.
  — Edward Nawotka, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• Green used a heavy blanket to secure the eagle as the trapper released the smooth-jawed steel trap from its clench on the eagle’s foot.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 20 Dec. 2017
• Andrew — blond and square-jawed — is sitting on the edge of an embankment, his feet dangling out of frame.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• His rugged, square-jawed face and shock of white hair was also emblazoned on the pop sockets of their iPhone cases.
  — Stephen Battaglio, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
• Sweaty, square-jawed close-ups substitute for fighting, and fake blood is doled out by the thimbleful.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• By that time the legacy of the swashbuckling, square-jawed, three-time Thompson trophy winner was set.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2022
• About the theme of old and new: There were ruddy-faced, locked-jawed royal family members in morning coats, and a few in top hats.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 19 May 2018
• Without it, Superman is just a one-note, steel-jawed do-gooder.
  — Graeme McMillan, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2022
• Burly and square-jawed, with a bushy slash of eyebrows over often mischievous eyes, Milley is quick with a quip and frequently a curse.
  — Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Sep. 2021
• Nandi filmed herself listening to her eponymous song for the first time, a slack-jawed smile stuck to her face for all two minutes.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
• Townes told reporters that Porter Moser, the checker-jacketed, square-jawed coach of the Ramblers, asked his players to keep their heads held high in his postgame speech.
  — Jeff Greer, The Courier-Journal, 31 Mar. 2018
• While the jawed fishes have undoubtedly taken over the seas, the hagfishes have clung on.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2012
• And the notion of the full, open-jawed Maximus swiveling atop an enormous body is impressive, if hair-raising.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• As seen in the acanthodians from the site, teeth had already developed within some groups of jawed fish.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 12 June 2012
• But here, Pine is called upon to be both a traditional square-jawed hero ready to save the world and the smart-ass comic relief looking out for No. 1.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023
• The most adventurous among cultured Parisians, in turn, hummed Tchaikovsky and watched slack-jawed as Nijinsky danced.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 24 Feb. 2022
• Photographs show a round, sturdy-jawed, tough yet cheerful young man, his eyes smiling even when his mouth isn’t.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Cable pops onto the scene as the kid’s nemesis, and as a lumbering, square-jawed compendium of knowing clichés.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2018
• Up by the cockpit, a square-jawed jock raced to strap himself into a vertical rowing machine.
  — Nicola Twilley, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
• One photograph of Shepherd as a young woman shows her in the guise of a Celtic princess, strong jawed, a jewelled diadem crowning her long braids.
  — Annalena McAfee, WSJ, 18 Dec. 2020
• The organs are the oldest preserved in three dimensions in any jawed vertebrate.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024