How to Use pharyngeal in a Sentence

pharyngeal

adjective

• Most fish use a second set of jaws in their throats—the pharyngeal jaws—to crush and grind their prey.
  — National Geographic, 13 Sep. 2016
• Oral jaws are used to capture prey, while pharyngeal jaws located in the back of the mouth are used to chew and swallow.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 17 Nov. 2021
• The creature only appears an hour into the film, first glimpsed as saliva-like goo and then as pharyngeal jaws that shoot out from its mouth.
  — J.b., The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Their oral jaws are used to capture and crush prey while their pharyngeal jaws, which are positioned in their throats, are used to chew their food and move it from their mouths to the stomach.
  — New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• So over the course of evolution, the larynx in the human line has moved lower in our throats, opening up a much larger pharyngeal cavity than found in other primates.
  — Louis-Jean Boë, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2019
• Fortunately, the eel has come up with a neat strategy to circumvent this problem: an extra set of jaws, known as the pharyngeal jaws, located deep in its throat.
  — Discover Magazine, 29 June 2010

Last Updated: 12 Feb 2025