Examples of maw in a Sentence
the gaping maw of the tiger
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Since February, Donald Trump and Linda McMahon have blocked these borrowers' path out of default and are now feeding them into the maw of the government debt collection machine.
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Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
Not all of the material from the wrecked star falls around the black hole and eventually into its maw, however.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 May 2025
What kind of people back a government that feeds an ally into the maw of Russian authoritarian expansionism and then blames the victim for it?
—Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Standing in the gaping maw of a garage is an Adonis, the bodybuilder Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors).
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
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Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 June 2025
Not all of the material from the wrecked star falls around the black hole and eventually into its maw, however.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 30 May 2025
What kind of people back a government that feeds an ally into the maw of Russian authoritarian expansionism and then blames the victim for it?
—Matt Robison, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
Standing in the gaping maw of a garage is an Adonis, the bodybuilder Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors).
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for maw
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“Maw.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/maw. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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maw
noun1
: a body part (as a stomach or a crop) that receives swallowed food
2
: the throat, gullet, or jaws especially of a flesh-eating animal
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