Examples of maw in a Sentence

the gaping maw of the tiger

Recent Examples on the Web The same descriptor cannot be applied to his team’s mission concept, a somewhat more bombastic endeavor that would drop an American probe into the Venusian maw for the first time since 1978. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 2 June 2021 Shoveling more corporate taxes into the insatiable maw of a government that has no concept of targeted spending makes any plan to raise additional taxes a lose-lose proposition that burden’s the economy with little or no offsetting benefit. — WSJ, 12 Apr. 2021 The world, in other words, was happening — all while enormous political energy and billions of dollars got sucked into the maw of endless campaigning. — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2021 Several outlets fed the maw in another way, by turning to international programming. — John Koblin, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021 In one, an insatiable media-industrial complex takes a vulnerable young woman into its maw, judging her sexuality and questioning, then actively undermining, her sanity. — Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2021 Voigt used that hole to string an electrical cord with a red light to show off the creature’s icicle teeth and blood-red maw. — cleveland, 22 Feb. 2021 The scientists prepped for their descent into the maw of the Greenland ice sheet by drilling deep into the ice. — Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Dec. 2020 Twice already it was sent me to do the impossible, the unpredictable, in my country: ushering a tale of the camps into print under Communist censorship, and publishing Archipelago while in the Dragon’s maw. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, National Review, 18 Nov. 2020

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