How to Use paw in a Sentence

paw

1 of 2 noun

• The dog injured his paw.
• Both have eyes and snouts, tails and paws, four legs and fur.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
• Feel free to wear your C-paw sweatshirt and root for the black-and-gold.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2023
• Palik was shot in the leg and his dog was also shot in the paw.
  — Chandra Fleming, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2022
• The shelter said the foothold traps did not cut deep into the dog’s paws.
  — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
• Cat paws have scent glands that will mark the blanket as their own.
  — John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2023
• The cat sits on the floor in the room’s middle, calmly licking one paw.
  — Jane Hirshfield, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
• In the video, Alali revealed a tattoo on her ribcage of Mochi's paw print.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 28 Dec. 2022
• The skull, backbone and paws were the size of an average adult boar.
  — Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
• If your hand can’t take the heat, neither can your dog’s bare paws.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• Symptoms of the virus include fever, cough, eye and nose discharge, swelling of the paw pads and more.
  — Mary Lebus, The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2023
• Some of his teeth were missing and one paw appeared to be swollen.
  — Emily Anthes Andres Kudacki, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• The paw left behind four scratches spreading from the top of the man’s head to near his right ear.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2023
• Rescuers found Rocky dog-tired and with an injury to one of his paws, per The Guardian.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 17 May 2023
• That's because the iPhone played a role in getting these pups back on their paws.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 22 Aug. 2023
• There are fingerprints — and a paw print, and a hoof mark — in the handmade bricks, and tool marks in planks.
  — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2023
• Then the big cat lunges forward and slams its sizable paws against the window with a thud.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
• The second photo in the carousel showed the pooch sweetly placing her paw on Amos’ hand.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2024
• Be sure to keep them in a cool, dry place that is out of reach from curious hands or paws.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2023
• The glands on your dog’s paws and its nose are called eccrine glands, and all mammals have these, too.
  — Bill Gifford, Men's Health, 12 June 2023
• With its front two paws in the air, back erect, the creature looks from side to side across a crowd of zoo visitors.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• On the trip to Loki's new abode, the dog reached out a paw to Arellano and placed it on his new pet parent's hand.
  — Kelli Bender, Peoplemag, 24 Mar. 2023
• As was our car on the drive back — despite the probable frostbite in our hands (and paws).
  — Travis M. Andrews, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• Others want to take an adorable paw or floppy ear and pretend to eat it.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2024
• In one photo, a ballet dancer in a white dress and tiara reaches down to shake the paw of a rescue pup.
  — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 9 Dec. 2022
• The first frame Chadwick shared shows the bear clinging to the neck of the cow moose with its paws, while blood dribbles from a wound on the moose’s shoulder.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 23 Aug. 2023
• There are many types of boots dogs can wear to prevent them from burning their paws on the hot pavement.
  — Abigail Celaya, The Arizona Republic, 25 July 2023
• Tape wooden sticks to gardening gloves to make a cat's paw.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• Our dog jumped all over it with dirty paws, but the stains came out of the upholstery easily.
  — Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 May 2023
• The mammal is perched on the dinosaur, its paws gripping the reptile's jaw and a hind limb while its teeth plunge into the ribcage.
  — Maddie Burakoff, BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2023

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paw

2 of 2 verb

• The bull was pawing the dirt.
• She pawed through her purse to find her cell phone.
• The celebrity couple was pawed by a mob of adoring fans.
• A crowd of customers was pawing over the remaining sales items.
• She claims that her boss got drunk and tried to paw her at the company Christmas party.
• In one image, the cougar is seen pawing at the front door.
  — Katherine Lam, Fox News, 31 July 2018
• Half a dozen excavators roared and pawed at the rust-red ground.
  — The Economist, 8 Feb. 2020
• Same goes for soybeans, and if the snow isn’t too deep, deer will paw it away to get to waste grain in both corn and bean fields.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2023
• Black bears will defend their young and have been known to paw and bite tents with food inside.
  — CBS News, 10 July 2017
• The leopard jumped partway into the vehicle, scratched the leg of the tourist, and pawed and bit at his shoe.
  — Richie Hertzberg, National Geographic, 21 May 2018
• Pups at that age wake up every few hours to whine and paw any warm body within reach.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• Two frisky felines, Frank and Maria, pawed at each through the planks of one of two bridges that spanned a picture window.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Feb. 2018
• Videos showed him pawing at doors, flopping out on the ground and peering through the glass of his confines.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2019
• The shelter posted a video of the determined Quilty cat trying to paw his way out of his cell.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 6 Nov. 2019
• No more pawing through the spice cabinet in search of the AWOL coriander.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 11 Sep. 2019
• Now Oladipo looks like a bull, backing up and pawing at the dirt and spotting a glint of red and just storming toward the rim.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 16 Apr. 2018
• Standing at the gate, pawing and neighing, then eager to come into the barn and not just for their food. ...
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2018
• These are toys where a dog must push something around until a treat falls out or must paw open a latch to gain access to a treat.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Dec. 2017
• Mila did find some areas that smelled enough like truffles to mark the spot by pawing the ground.
  — Ellen Garrison, sacbee, 24 Dec. 2017
• All the lines to and from the world, all the hungry beings clawing and sucking and pawing at it, everything cut off.
  — David Canfield, EW.com, 17 July 2019
• Seconds after the feline lands on the lawn, the coyote returns and tries to paw closer to the house, edging onto the grass near Kevin.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 29 Oct. 2021
• Last Monday, the black cat pawed all over the turf and (kind of) scored a touchdown before being herded off the field and into the hearts of millions.
  — Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• One pooch starts licking Louie's toe while the other licks his hand, pawing clumsily at the tot.
  — Christina Oehler, Woman's Day, 31 July 2015
• All that careful counting and pawing through the register for change is slow.
  — Town & Country, 28 Jan. 2019
• Now Tyler is back in the kitten room at the ACS, among other young felines who paw and meow when prospective adopters walk in.
  — Vincent T. Davis, ExpressNews.com, 1 July 2019
• Eventually, Bolles was told that the Funks had pawed through his bank accounts and wiretapped his phones to dig up dirt on him.
  — AZCentral.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• An Uber driver who paws away at an iPhone mounted on a dashboard isn’t captured.
  — Kyle Stock, Houston Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2018
• TatorTot was on his bed, barking and pawing at him, licking his face.
  — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 2 May 2017
• The thirsty koala pawed at the empty bottle when the firefighter pulled it away, appearing to be amused by the plastic vessel.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, PEOPLE.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• Sam’s two oldest daughters start to paw at her feet for attention.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 19 Oct. 2017

Last Updated: 3 May 2024