How to Use jawed in a Sentence

jawed

adjective

• Barkhuff—square-jawed, dark-haired, and blunt—made two spots.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2020
• The other scowls, bug-eyed and open-jawed, as if caught in mid-shout.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• Certain short- or snub-nosed dogs and cats, as well as strong-jawed dog breeds, will be banned.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 May 2018
• That’s about four hours a day of being sedentary, slack-jawed, and glassy-eyed.
  — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 19 Jan. 2021
• No square-jawed jock, this guy worships the Hives and the Vines.
  — Mara Reinstein, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2023
• My son wasn’t athletic but could tie about any knot and catch fish while adults watched slack-jawed.
  — WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• Sandoval props himself on his arm and just stares at it, slack-jawed and drooling.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2021
• Siegfried was 20 years old, strong-jawed, and working as a first-class steward.
  — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• Sweaty, square-jawed close-ups substitute for fighting, and fake blood is doled out by the thimbleful.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 11 May 2017
• Andrew — blond and square-jawed — is sitting on the edge of an embankment, his feet dangling out of frame.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• They were rewarded with complete fossils of early jawed fish.
  — Asher Elbein, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• At 39, Poncet is blond, block-jawed, and quiet, with enormous hands.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 13 Jan. 2023
• Photographs show a round, sturdy-jawed, tough yet cheerful young man, his eyes smiling even when his mouth isn’t.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Onscreen, Andy was being seduced by a heavily jawed man with blond hair.
  — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
• Norselaspis isn’t only challenging the timeline of jawed fish.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
• By around 400 million years ago, jawed fish dominated the oceans.
  — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 6 Aug. 2025
• His rugged, square-jawed face and shock of white hair was also emblazoned on the pop sockets of their iPhone cases.
  — Stephen Battaglio, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
• Nandi filmed herself listening to her eponymous song for the first time, a slack-jawed smile stuck to her face for all two minutes.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
• Up by the cockpit, a square-jawed jock raced to strap himself into a vertical rowing machine.
  — Nicola Twilley, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
• As seen in the acanthodians from the site, teeth had already developed within some groups of jawed fish.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 12 June 2012
• Green used a heavy blanket to secure the eagle as the trapper released the smooth-jawed steel trap from its clench on the eagle’s foot.
  — Max Londberg, kansascity, 20 Dec. 2017
• While the jawed fishes have undoubtedly taken over the seas, the hagfishes have clung on.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 14 Feb. 2012
• The organs are the oldest preserved in three dimensions in any jawed vertebrate.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2022
• By that time the legacy of the swashbuckling, square-jawed, three-time Thompson trophy winner was set.
  — Roger Catlin, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2022
• That’s the true American spirit, the sort of square-jawed guy that goes off into the wilderness and forges his future.
  — Edward Nawotka, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2021
• Some got more than two feet long; others were festooned in curving spines that were likely used to dissuade jawed fish and other would-be predators.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2019
• Cable pops onto the scene as the kid’s nemesis, and as a lumbering, square-jawed compendium of knowing clichés.
  — New York Times, 14 May 2018
• Burly and square-jawed, with a bushy slash of eyebrows over often mischievous eyes, Milley is quick with a quip and frequently a curse.
  — Robert Burns and Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Sep. 2021
• And the notion of the full, open-jawed Maximus swiveling atop an enormous body is impressive, if hair-raising.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2022
• But this didn’t prevent many legal experts from reacting with slack-jawed shock to Cannon’s order.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022