How to Use mandible in a Sentence

mandible

noun

• Fire ants use their mandibles (jaws) just to latch on to your skin.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], AL.com, 20 Aug. 2017
• The strip steak will exhaust the most resilient of mandibles.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2024
• Why does the Falcon have a gap between its front mandibles?
  — Dan Gvozden, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 June 2018
• The jawbone is part of an adult mandible, but its height points to a person of short stature and small body size.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 June 2018
• After Lavin complained of pain in his jaw, X-rays showed there was a hole in his mandible.
  — John Maffei, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 May 2017
• The fossil, a mandible for chewing, was first discovered in 1980 by a monk.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2019
• But termites, with their strong, sharp mandibles, aren’t easy prey, and raiders often get limbs bitten off in the fight.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2018
• The museum currently has a right mandible from a right whale, which was found in 1907.
  — USA TODAY, 1 July 2019
• The bees soon cut several holes in the leaves of each plant using their mandibles and proboscises.
  — Jim Daley, Scientific American, 21 May 2020
• Scientists have been studying the mandible (and the area where it was discovered) since 2010.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 May 2019
• While Janzen can’t say if the jewel’s goo is toxic or not, the stuff can gum up the mandibles of something like an attacking ant.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2015
• So far, the researchers have identified 51 mammoth mandibles and 64 skulls, the researchers said.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Mar. 2020
• Dawson broke off parts of the orangutan mandible that would reveal a poor fit with the human skull, and reshaped the teeth with a metal file.
  — Daniel T. Ksepka, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2023
• Others, like the trap-jaw ant, use their mandibles to catapult themselves to safety.
  — National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2018
• In the tunnels and on the dusty earth, termites fell by the score and warrior ants lost limbs and perished under the pincer shear of terrible mandibles.
  — William Herkewitz, Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2017
• Still, all the extra weight and much larger mandibles are probably worth something.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2023
• The head is a compact black bullet from which emerge long thick spikes of hair, two segmented antennae, and clamp-like mandibles.
  — Daisy Alioto, The New York Review of Books, 27 Mar. 2020
• The skeleton belongs to the Ophthalmosaurus family of ichthyosaurs—huge-eyed creatures with long, thin mandibles that helped them catch fish and squid.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
• The nematodes have even been used to save Florida oranges from demise at the hungry mandibles of the citrus root weevil.
  — Kyle Frischkorn, Smithsonian, 25 July 2017
• At some point during his stay, the monk found a strange mandible — a single length of jawbone studded with a handful of enormous molars.
  — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 17 Jan. 2022
• Up to an inch and a half long, the hornet is equipped with powerful mandibles capable of shearing smaller insects to pieces.
  — National Geographic, 8 Feb. 2020
• Trap-jaw ants use spring actuation to launch their mandibles to capture prey, while grasshoppers use their springy legs to kick away predators.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 28 Aug. 2023
• These pre-meal encounters often lead to dangerous injuries from a termite’s fierce mandibles, which can pierce the ants with rapid blows.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2024
• Carpenter bees Black thumb-sized carpenter bees with shiny abdomens and strong mandibles.
  — The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
• When the mandible was discovered, it was still encased in a hard travertine block and only partially exposed.
  — Brian Anthony Keeling, The Conversation, 2 May 2023
• Plenty of ants have mandibles that quickly snap shut, but the Dracula ant's appeared to work differently.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2018
• The 4,000-year-old skull and mandible of an Egyptian man show signs of cancerous lesions and tool marks, according to a recent paper published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 5 June 2024
• Two species of Myrmoteras trap-jaw ant use a special set of joints and muscles to spring-load their massive mandibles before releasing them to slam shut on prey, according to a new study.
  — Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, 30 Aug. 2017
• The discovery was rare because both the animal's mandible and a tusk were exposed to the surface, Houde said in a paper published on his website about Jude's discovery.
  — Amy B Wang, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2017
• The scientists even documented a butterfly stealing a droplet of nectar straight from the mandibles of an ant, the first time this has been documented.
  — National Geographic, 15 June 2016

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