jaws 1 of 2

plural of jaw

jaws

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of jaw

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for jaws
Noun
  • And some of the chatter was about Bueckers hard-launching her relationship with her former UConn teammate Azzi Fudd.
    Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 27 July 2025
  • Despite all the chatter on the outside, inside the ropes of the Bengals’ training camp launch this week, there was just solid work.
    Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 27 July 2025
Noun
  • Each monthly box includes three recipe guides, skill lessons, a kitchen tool, a kitchen project, an apron patch, table talk cards, and a grocery list.
    Jessica Booth, Parents, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Almost everything about Thanksgiving, from travel to table talk about politics, has the potential to become fraught.
    Kendra Nordin Beato, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The summary of the interview written by the Moscow detective describes a lot of small talk before Kohberger acknowledged hearing about a killing and then invoking his Fifth Amendment rights.
    NBC News, NBC news, 24 July 2025
  • Most of the conversation consisted of small talk, Payne wrote in the report, with a focus on Kohberger’s studies and his interests in criminal justice and criminology.
    Dakin Andone, CNN Money, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • In the face of this workaday jangle of strangeness and complexity, paranoia starts to seem like a perfectly rational response.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
  • The key organizer mutes the noise of key jangles and can keep keys in a tidy stack in a user’s preferred order.
    Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The latest gab session was instead devoted to taking questions from the fans — which led to a surprising story about a rock & roll legend.
    Jordan Hoffman, EW.com, 18 May 2025
  • And as the resident gossip expert, no one is more equipped to handle the trickiest aspects of gab, even when gossip just might be the villain of the story.
    Kelsey McKinney, Rolling Stone, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But during his acceptance speech for the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award, Jay-Z took the opportunity to throw some chin music at the Recording Academy.
    Anna Gaca, Pitchfork, 5 Feb. 2024
  • And many of our plants leaned into that chin music to less than stellar results.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 7 Apr. 2023
Noun
  • That first crack of thunder, the patter of rain on rooftops and the brief but glorious cooldown.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 4 July 2025
  • Lucas was asked about Yoda’s particular patter, which often found the character doing away with typical sentence structure and essentially delivering his heady insights and mighty koans backwards.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2025
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“Jaws.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jaws. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.

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