How to Use maw in a Sentence

maw

noun

• At one point, blood can be seen drooling from one of the bear’s maws.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 9 May 2023
• Suddenly, all sounds drop away in the face of that silent maw.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 16 Mar. 2022
• These new coin mining cards are just more food for that hungry maw.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 28 June 2017
• The next chore was squeezing goo from a tube into each dog’s maw.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Mar. 2021
• The bowl was its gaping maw, the hinges of the seat were its piercing eyes.
  — Christie D'zurilla Los Angeles Times (tns), al, 11 Jan. 2023
• Even something as innocuous as the name of a blog gets caught in the maw.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 23 Aug. 2013
• All these devices had escaped the maw of oblivion.
  — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• Then two hikers wearing headlamps emerged from the cave’s dark maw.
  — Bruce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2022
• Beyond them, the press stands silent, its open maw hungry for the evening edition’s type.
  — Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
• Who shall enter the cavernous maw of our fair stadium next?
  — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 27 June 2026
• First the whales gulp vast amounts of seawater into their massive maw.
  — Jack Tamisiea, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
• The music world was a kind of aperitif for the maw of digital.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 20 Mar. 2010
• So, the lumbering maw that is our leader is likely to gobble it up.
  — Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2026
• But a customer call leads her into the maw of an ethical dilemma.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024
• The critter opens wide, and Womer shoves his head toward the gaping maw.
  — Todd Masson, NOLA.com, 26 June 2017
• With a gaping maw and uneven, jagged teeth, its appearance is the stuff of nightmares.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2018
• 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
• Or the Cantonese corn and fish maw soup, a brilliantly yellow seafood stock with sweet corn and egg drop.
  — Lucas Sin, Bon Appétit, 15 May 2020
• In another spot, hundreds of wildcatters had dug out a gaping maw of red and white soil.
  — Written By Nicholas Casey; Photographs By Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2016
• Against a black void, there’s a big spray of crimson—a cascade of blood, perhaps—placed beside a gaping maw.
  — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 3 Sep. 2019
• One of my goals is to activate the Bloom’s maw and travel to another world.
  — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2017
• The material that doesn't fall into the maw of the central black hole can be channeled to the poles of the black hole.
  — Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
• On the way inside, a life-size mimic—with its menacing and toothy maw—is noticeable from across the room.
  — Courtney Mifsud Intreglia, TIME, 18 Sep. 2024
• Out there in the Universe right now there are small clusters being sucked helplessly in the maw of large ones.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 21 Sep. 2017
• The wood held him in the maw of the river's hydraulic force as water pounded over his head, often bending him at the waist.
  — James Bennett, Alaska Dispatch News, 16 Aug. 2017
• The tar whale screeched and eldritch tentacles burst from its face, forming a maw designed to drag me into the world of the dead.
  — Matthew Gault, Time, 1 Nov. 2019
• Some drivers admire the aggressive maw and the visual effect of bearing down on the road.
  — John Scott Lewinski, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2018
• After a summer stuffing her maw with salmon that were hers and hers alone, Beadnose has the blubber to show for it.
  — Karin Brulliard, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
• This weekend, it's been a popular refuge for the Coachellans who want to stay in one place and avoid the maw at the main stages.
  — Gerrick Kennedy, latimes.com, 16 Apr. 2017
• The gaping maw of the blank doorway had stood on the shore road for years as invitation to the miseries banked within.
  — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022