jawboned; jawboning; jawbones
: to speak forcefully and persuasively to
jawboned them into accepting the deal
: to talk especially forcefully and persuasively
jawboning about the tax cuts
Examples of jawbone in a Sentence
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Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
The jawbone, which still had several teeth connected, was first obtained by the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in 2002, according to a news release from Ramapo College of New Jersey.
—Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
Experts have confirmed that a human jawbone that was mysteriously discovered in a child's rock collection once belonged to a United States Marine, who died during his military service over 70 years ago.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2024
Lomax immediately noted the similarities between the bones Ruby and Justin had found and pieces of prehistoric jawbone discovered in 2016 further along the coast by a fossil collector named Paul de la Salle, according to the university.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
Lomax was impressed that Ruby and Justin suspected that their discovery was an ichthyosaur jawbone.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
Betts ultimately found another 20 bones, along with bottles and marble, before discovering the second part of the original jawbone.
—Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2024
The bones belonged to the jawbone of a gigantic ichthyosaur, an aquatic dinosaur roughly the size of a modern-day blue whale.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
Natalie Grumet was shot in the face during the Las Vegas massacre, shattering her jawbone and fracturing her chin in half.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2024
Time, 14 Aug. 2023
Judge Terry Doughty ruled that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in proving that a bombardment of takedown requests by emails and calls from White House and federal agency officials forced the social media companies’ hands, amounting to a practice known as jawboning.
—WIRED, 24 July 2023
Except, that is, for eight exceptions in which the feds may jawbone away.
—Rob Pegoraro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
Once known for jawboning the Saudis to pump more oil and thereby lower the price, the president now finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to raise oil prices so US energy companies can earn a profit.
—Jacob Bogage, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2020
Before the 2018 midterm elections, when the price of gasoline was rising to nearly $3 per gallon, Trump jawboned Saudi Arabia to boost its production to get prices down.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
In the months following the first tidings of COVID-19 from China, Trump played down its potential impact—attempting to jawbone a virus, or at least the perception of it.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
Investors should by now be wise to jawboning from the White House.
—Charles Riley, CNN, 8 Dec. 2019
Former mayor Tom Menino tried to jawbone Partners HealthCare into consolidating its offices there at one point.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
Noun
Solving the mystery of a human jawbone found in an Arizona boy’s rock collection.
Pets and wildlife
The Mojave desert tortoise officially joins California’s endangered list.
—Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2024
The jawbone, which still had several teeth connected, was first obtained by the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in 2002, according to a news release from Ramapo College of New Jersey.
—Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 18 Apr. 2024
Experts have confirmed that a human jawbone that was mysteriously discovered in a child's rock collection once belonged to a United States Marine, who died during his military service over 70 years ago.
—Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2024
Lomax immediately noted the similarities between the bones Ruby and Justin had found and pieces of prehistoric jawbone discovered in 2016 further along the coast by a fossil collector named Paul de la Salle, according to the university.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
Lomax was impressed that Ruby and Justin suspected that their discovery was an ichthyosaur jawbone.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024
Betts ultimately found another 20 bones, along with bottles and marble, before discovering the second part of the original jawbone.
—Brittany Kasko, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2024
The bones belonged to the jawbone of a gigantic ichthyosaur, an aquatic dinosaur roughly the size of a modern-day blue whale.
—Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
Natalie Grumet was shot in the face during the Las Vegas massacre, shattering her jawbone and fracturing her chin in half.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 15 Feb. 2024
Verb
Testimony can be expected as well from the two top Michigan state lawmakers who were summoned to the White House and jawboned to change the Michigan electors.
—Time, 14 Aug. 2023
Judge Terry Doughty ruled that the plaintiffs were likely to succeed in proving that a bombardment of takedown requests by emails and calls from White House and federal agency officials forced the social media companies’ hands, amounting to a practice known as jawboning.
—WIRED, 24 July 2023
Except, that is, for eight exceptions in which the feds may jawbone away.
—Rob Pegoraro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
Once known for jawboning the Saudis to pump more oil and thereby lower the price, the president now finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to raise oil prices so US energy companies can earn a profit.
—Jacob Bogage, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2020
Before the 2018 midterm elections, when the price of gasoline was rising to nearly $3 per gallon, Trump jawboned Saudi Arabia to boost its production to get prices down.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2020
In the months following the first tidings of COVID-19 from China, Trump played down its potential impact—attempting to jawbone a virus, or at least the perception of it.
—Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
Investors should by now be wise to jawboning from the White House.
—Charles Riley, CNN, 8 Dec. 2019
Former mayor Tom Menino tried to jawbone Partners HealthCare into consolidating its offices there at one point.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
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jawbone
noun
jaw·bone
ˈjȯ-ˈbōn, -ˌbōn 
: jaw sense 1
especially
: mandible
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