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Sentence Examples Firefishes have numerous small teeth that occur in clusters on the upper and lower jaws. There he was pinioned to the floor by devices with smooth jaws similar to the trap that had taken him. The press just gaped with their jaws open and tongue hanging out in utter incredulity. The thing rushed past his stationary body, jaws snapping at the mermaids ' tails. Many orofacial myologists believe that a tongue thrust may result in an anterior open bite, deformation of the jaws, an abnormal function. Ideal for new or experienced woodturners, this self centring chuck has 4 jaws which expand and contract, controlled by 2 tommy bars. As Tendulkar fell three runs short of his ton, the burgers dropped along with the jaws! Although their tongues are large, they do not protrude them beyond the threshold of the jaws. Recent modeling studies have focused on systems such as vertebrate jaws, limbs, tongues and tentacles and axial muscle. My jaws dropped slightly as I saw the bathroom mirror was smashed to pieces. Titan triggerfish are armed with powerful jaws and teeth suitable for chewing bony corals divers should steer clear of them! Their jaws slack, they slouch just so, and their thumbs hook their belt loops. The crack of willow on leather was replaced by the thud of fists on jaws as drunken spectators traded blows when players came off the pitch. Their elongate mouth and strong jaws held rows of pointed conical teeth, similar in shape to those of modern toothed whales. The best tools, cutters that use square blocks as jaws, actually shear or break the bar, leaving the strength of the bars unaltered. It has jaws that apparently can crush stones so that even crabs are just like mincemeat to it. As fish swim by, the angelshark bursts up and surprises the prey, catching it in its trap-like jaws. I've been receiving symbolic shiners, charley horses and swollen jaws since I first picked up a mic and joked into it. Riders are suspended in the jaws of a vampire bat, their legs dangling free, as they swoop over the treetops and soar through the sky. It thus seems that this is not an apparatus for crushing the food, but for expressing the liquid from the food triturated by the jaws. Show More Sentences These spiders are easily distinguished from the mygalomorphs because they move their jaws sideways, like a pair of pliers. All animals in this order lack incisor and canine teeth, but they may have numerous simple molars in the backs of their jaws. Raine was bound tightly by a rope around her neck and a muzzle on her jaws. But they all have the trademark short hair, round muscular build and large powerful jaws. Tadpoles have no jaws, lungs or eyelids, and possess a skeleton of cartilage. The wolf sitting silently beside him in the passenger's seat yawned, snapping her jaws. A ray eats its prey by grabbing the mollusk in its mouth and crushing the shell with its jaws. Our jaws are a little small to accept wisdom teeth that are often impacted and may need pulling. I took it for granted in my article that God may sometimes give special graces to dying persons to rescue them from the jaws of perdition. A paedodontist is especially well-versed in the growth and development of children's teeth and jaws. Mobbed by joyous teammates, this goal clinched victory for Ilkley from the jaws of defeat. I included all muscles associated with the jaws, tongue and hyoid, palate, and pharynx. It lets hyenas crush carcasses with their jaws and enables elephants to support their massive bodies. Sally heard a sharp clack as the dragon's jaws unhinged, and a blast of foul breath washed over them. A houndfish is a silver, saltwater, large needlefish with a green back, and whose jaws are equal in length. And like wild dogs after a wounded buffalo, the ants swarmed over it, their terrible serrated jaws clamped tight or biting, biting, biting. Our jaws hit the floor when we first spotted Jennifer Lawrence's new choppy cut. The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag. The close-ups reveal jaws and eyes that move with all the precision of a drunken sailor attempting to score a bulls-eye in a game of darts. All of them, including people, are carved in the same beautiful but grotesque style, with beaks, staring eyes, outspread wings and gaping jaws. Show More Sentences The tallest of the three had his jaws set hard, his green eyes glinting angrily. To be able to lift their outsized jaws, the assassins evolved elongated necks, giving the spiders a unique ability to strike from a distance. In many fishes, it is the only structural element in the oral jaws that moves during jaw opening and closing. It is sometimes possible to change the way the jaws grow, using orthodontic appliances. She closed her great jaws over the tree and stripped the branches and leaves from the main trunk. They feature strong serrated jaws which clamp together when the trap is sprung. I started laughing but it came out like a weird snorting, snuffling sound because my jaws were clamped together. The woman's skull was heavyset, belying her once-lithe frame, her brow-ridges dense, her jaws firm and stolid. Massive jaws sliced through his body like a knife through a stick of butter. The canines, which are present in both upper and lower jaws, are medium-sized and hooked. Reversed handedness among fossil polychaete jaws was recently described by Bergman. It is almost perfectly square, heavily set like a bulldog's, with huge nutcracker jaws and a pugilist's broken nose. Scores of dark brown driver ants with saw toothed jaws slashed through flower and leaf, devouring everything it their path. The middle aged motorist shut his eyes and squeezed them like the jaws of a nutcracker. All around the pedestal, black tentacles grew of the mist, thick and hairy, their undersides covered with tiny snapping jaws. Its most noteworthy aspect is its jaws, used for scraping the algae and bacteria it feeds on from moss. The Smalleye Squaretail is recognised by its distinctive jaws, scalation and body form. Day and night, I hear his jaws crunching through the wood, grinding it to a fine dust. They are chewing very big wads of bubblegum, their jaws shifting around it. But the treasure I did find was in the form of a beautifully preserved large set of fossil fish jaws belonging to an acanthodian. Show More Sentences In fact, at one point, everyone, including me, was gathered in the firm's common area just watching the water bombers with our jaws dropped. Whereas arms and legs have more muscles than segments, the jaws and tongues of anurans are composed of relatively few muscles. Capybaras are classified with the hystricognaths, but their jaws appear to have secondarily become almost sciurognathous. The crocodile had mounted an offense and taken the body of a native, crushing him in its jaws. You can dislocate your jaws and wrest your hands out of their joints, they still haven't understood you and will never understand you. The primary skeletal difference between reptiles and mammals is found in the structure of their jaws. Thomas cites the experience of a nineteenth-century explorer saved by a companion just as a lion's jaws had begun to crush his chest. Humans may have learned about what a high fat, high protein meal the marrow was from the hyenas, who could crush bones with their jaws. With its eyes closed, jaws wide apart and its entire armory exposed in a ghastly gummy smile, its head looked like a necklace of death. The fossil skull's upper and lower jaws reveal deep channels and grooves that once held nerves and blood vessels. Named after their spotted coats and fearsome jaws, leopard seals have large, reptilian heads and streamlined bodies. Most diprotodonts have three pairs of incisors in their upper jaws, but this number is reduced to one pair in one family, the wombats. The tapered, long slender jaws of these pliers are the best tool for adding a switch to a lamp cord or installing a dimmer switch. See how a mother alligator protects her newborn hatchlings in her otherwise deadly jaws, and learn what dangers the babies face in the wild. Massive carnivorous dinosaurs known as spinosaurs had snouts and jaws similar to modern fish-eating crocodiles. The thick skin, massive strength in the shoulders and neck, and vice grip jaws are there for a reason. Rows of teeth exposed between the great jaws that turned the oceans into a sea of blood. It was not until the autofocus hit the mark that I noted the jaws of the scorpionfish trapping the poor butterfish. The creature came right up to us, until we could smell its putrid breath and hear it's snapping jaws. For an infected ant, when the declining air temperature hits a certain threshold, its jaws become locked in a closed position. Show More Sentences Others, such as the clam worm, are active, mobile predators that capture prey in jaws attached to their pharynges. Opening its jaws, the wolf-like beast charged forward, teeth gnashing at the air and paws thudding off the ground. The anapsids start out with elongate jaws and rostra, but the entire muzzle becomes progressively shorter across their phylospace. Termites rush to a breach in their nest and clamp their jaws onto the snout of a marauding anteater, almost guaranteeing their own death. The termites use their jaws to turn the woody plant material and soil they bore through into tiny particles that the microbes can process. The buccal mass of cephalopods includes a pair of jaws termed beaks that are used to masticate prey. Finally, the bucking pipe is gripped by the mechanical jaws of a massive clamp. Make sure the jaws of the wrench or pliers are snug in position before you manipulate the handle, to avoid slippage or scraped knuckles. Think of a carnivore animal evolving powerful jaws to catch and kill its prey. As many as 750 children have been rescued by Vathsalya from the jaws of despair, and perhaps death, some of them only a few months old. This adds up to more than 500 million people, who have been saved from the jaws of oppression and dominance. Keighley Town grasped victory from the jaws of defeat thanks to a brilliant last minute individual try from Man of the Match Neil Kennedy. Indeed, sometimes even a layoff can carry within it the seeds of future success, and you can wrest something positive from the jaws of rejection. She pried the trap open with her own arms, slowly the gaping jaws of the trap stood wide open, but she couldn't hold it like that anymore. Then we continued on our way, going deeper and deeper into the open jaws of the cave. She looked as gorgeous as ever and certainly had every young lad in town gawking with dropped jaws. Siganids get their common name, rabbitfishes, from their peaceful temperament, rounded blunt snout, and rabbit-like appearance of the jaws. The effect of this trend among cynodonts, toward a single lower jaw bone, was to make the jaws stronger. They always lurk behind me, waiting with their jaws open, licking their lips. Once the prey is snared it is bitten with strong beak-like jaws and pulled into the mouth by the radula. Show More Sentences In particular, prey is transported into and through the mouth via independent ratcheting movements of the upper jaws. Hung on the walls were beautiful dagger hilts shaped as hawks and dragons, one a ravening wolf with a great diamond clasped in it jaws. The bronze whaler shark is the guy who slowly swims up through the centre of this meatball, jaws open wide and chomping. Since cheetahs have small jaws and a light build, a mother cannot defend her cubs or kills against lions and hyenas. Doherty makes a positive start with an aggressive red but is undone on his next shot when the brown hits the jaws and bounces off the table. If a vessel was gripped in the jaws of a south-west gale here, it would be driven onto the beach for the waves to pound to pieces. Chomping down with oversize jaws, a wind scorpion lunches on a lizard in California's Mojave Desert. They've got these crocodilian jaws that just crunch off huge chunks of meat and bone, and then they just swallow it all. No animal is so fleet of foot or so powerful that it will not one day succumb to the jaws of the hyena. Soldiers resemble worker termites, except that they have enlarged brownish heads and strong, well-developed jaws. Fledglings frequently ride atop their parents to avoid the jaws of snapping turtles and carnivorous fish. Sure enough, lampreys are simple vertebrates lacking jaws, teeth and a bony skeleton, whereas sharks are much more complex animals. His cap cast a shadow over the top part of his face and accentuated the slightly angular shape of his jaws. Silurian ramphoprionid polychaete annelids, represented by their jaws, are described from extensive collections from Gotland, Sweden. It would only take a few snap of his jaws and a few licks of his fingers for the thing to be done and irreversible. Eventually, the jaws reach a natural, relaxed position, and no further adjustments are needed. The jaws are riddled with small holes through which nerve bundles can relay electrical messages from the domes to the brain. Only two crocodilian groups had sparser, and therefore less sensitive, strings of the holes running along their jaws. I couldn't believe it when a fox cub appeared a minute later with a young rabbit in its jaws. The mouth is surrounded by five jaws and leads to an esophagus that connects to the sac-like stomach. Show More Sentences There was no stopping the laughing machine and people laughed till their eyes watered and jaws literally ached. Descending to the first floor of his house, he found two men cowering on a credenza, high above the bone-crushing jaws of his prize pets. Males grow humped backs and hooked jaws, and females keep their sleeker shape. Imagine the field surgeons with scalpels and the firemen with the jaws of life. Smoke twisted from the jaws of the stack, the big wheel turned, slowly at first, gathering momentum and speed. The clam worm, which scavenges food, may not require jaws as hard as those of the bloodworm, which thrusts its jaws into prey to inject venom. You see, they crush the larger bones, lather the head and unjoint their jaws. Short but deep jaws with banana-sized sharp teeth, long hind limbs, small beady eyes, and tiny forelimbs typify a tyrannosaur. It is manlike and has a body covered with hair, a hairless face and hands, large jaws and an eyebrow ridge. I hadn't realised how many guys had schoolboy crushes on Wonder Woman so when I walked on set looking a bit like her, their jaws just dropped. The in situ position of many of these jaws is of considerable interest and suggests that post-mortem disturbance of the ammonite was not great. I'm not glancing around for the next cottonmouth or even the clamping jaws of an irate alligator. Apparently, however, the jaws of theropods were relatively weaker for their length than those of carnivorans. But pollywogs must grow legs, lose a tail, and completely reconfigure their jaws and digestive tract to prepare for a life of eating flies. Each tooth is divided into a crown that projects into the mouth and a root that is embedded into the jaws. Injuries included broken teeth and jaws as well as contusions and lesions on face and body. But pliosaurs had short necks and massive jaws that would have been capable of lifting a car and biting it in half. Almost constantly, the long tongue would loll pinkly from his jaws and lap at the bare, shiny patches of burnt skin that stretched across his torso and over one forearm. But when patients open their jaws, he totters on the abyss and gets no steadying hand from God. Above the matted hair that concealed the jaws and cheeks, blue eyes stared out of cavernous sockets. Show More Sentences The lower jaw is the primary site of force transmission from the body and jaw muscles to the jaws, in mouth opening and, to a lesser extent, jaw closing. Fish with jaws usually have five functional pairs of gill arches. In others, the way the upper and lower jaws meet can cause teeth to look unsightly and lead to an incorrect bite. Orthodontic treatment may be able to correct this. For one thing, the average WAFR is around the same size as a Labrador, with front teeth some four inches long, and jaws capable of crushing human bone. The dragon caught up with and snapped his jaws shut, trapping Xio inside. Scolecodonts are the isolated jaws of polychaete annelid worms. Cover the jaws of wrenches or vices with electrician's tape. The steel jaws of the traps, which will catch any animal or person walking in the bush, are ostensibly for use against jackals but are often used by poachers to trap game. Barracuda often pump their jaws in order to move water past their gills. One landmark event in vertebrate evolution was the evolution of jaws from agnathan ancestors, which was followed by the first appearance of the stomach. He bit, hard, the muscles in his jaws and neck bunching and flexing. His eyes lit up with malicious intent, and his lipless jaws curved up into a hideous expression that James figured the horrible creature thought was a smile. He placed his big hand over his clown mask and slid it back to rest on the gentle arch of his nose, like a snug pair of glasses, then his jaws took a mighty bite. Urodele amphibians such as newts and axolotls show a remarkable capacity for regenerating body structures such as tails, limbs, jaws, and the lens of the eye. The narrower ends of the jaws allowed my backsaws to be mounted without removing the handle, you may have to change the shape there to suit your saws. All bravado, Miguel rushes to her rescue, scooping up a three-inch, striped insect with threatening jaws and a large, baldish head that looks eerily human. Named Akidolestes, the extinct animal had jaws, teeth, and forelimbs that identify it as a close relative of modern placental and marsupial mammals. Yet when the new regulations for the UK Audiovisual Media Services 2014 were announced, jaws dropped. They can grow to be up to 26 feet long and over 7,000 pounds, and one of the jaws impersonators in this video is evidence of that. Then he leaned over to catch what Lou, his face twitching and jaws contracting, was saying to him. Show More Sentences When they did finally find the now infamous V. Stiviano recording, their jaws dropped. It springs or rushes out of ambush, opening its jaws quickly and allowing them to slam together hard enough to snap the relatively fragile tibiotarsus of the bird. Scarids have fused beak-like jaws which they use to graze on algae. They were strictly herbivorous and had wide semicircular, or rectangular cropping jaws packed with spoon-shaped teeth for taking big mouthfuls of fodder. Because If I see you even take one step out of that chair, I'm going to hog-tie you and gag you, but not before I clamp your jaws shut with mucilage! Within a manner of half seconds, the wall exploded, and out from among the debris leapt a huge creature with slavering tusked jaws and mean yellow eyes. Just to show them who's boss I kicked at their jaws and scolded them down. For example, the long jaws of gar and needlefish arose independently and give these disparate taxa the most velocity specialized mandibles yet measured in fishes. It has jaws adapted to receive and grasp a roller and a movable sliding spindle to engage with the staff of the balance-wheel, and a lever for operating the spindle. These first vertebrates lacked jaws, like the living hagfish and lampreys. But because the ligaments are so tight, the jaws couldn't stretch very far, and soon the ligaments would begin acting like the fulcrum at the hinged end of the nutcracker. However, recently he was censured for dangling his baby son Bob near the open jaws of a crocodile and forced to make an apology to his millions of fans. His jaws champed spasmodically, froth appeared on his blackened lips. In reptiles and primitive synapsids, the right and left lower jaws are each made up of a number of bones, one of which is the dentary, or tooth-bearing, bone. These in turn fall victim to the snapping jaws of small to medium-sized ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles not unlike modern dolphins, and averaging some 3 meters in length. To ward off those would-be car pinchers, simply affix a toy crocodile to the front of your vehicle and watch them run from those terrifying plastic jaws of death! The animal's jaws can exert a pressure of more than 750 pounds per square inch. It was also covered in bony overlapping plates, like all placoderms, but had weak jaws and a peculiar high-crested bone, somewhat like a dorsal fin, straddled its back. Tenacious resistance was also demonstrated by the remnants of the First Army caught in the jaws of the German trap and knowing that the outcome was predestined. The material collected was resistant to gastric juice, including fish bones, rays, jaws, and teeth of a number of animals, plus crab and insect exoskeletons. Show More Sentences The guide looked at us with our jaws hanging down and giggled to himself. Therefore, many fish with protrusible jaws have a second set of jaws in the throat, termed pharyngeal jaws, that process food and free the outer jaw to continue feeding. I had a brilliant extended family that included a very generous grand-aunt, uncle and grandparents, who made it their business to regularly rescue me from the jaws of poverty. The wolf growled in anger and clamped its jaws down on Ray's shoulder. The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster dates from the 6th century when one of Saint Columba's monks had a narrow escape from its jaws. The extinct predatory fish Dunkleosteus had sharp edges of hard exposed bone along its jaws. They discovered australopith faces and jaws were strongest in the areas most likely to receive a punch. Examples of body language include leaping out of the water, snapping jaws, slapping the tail on the surface and butting heads. Calling this beetle-browed disdainful young person, hair hanging in her face, jaws chewing pecan pie with mechanical precision, honey! Their elongated upper and lower jaws form what is called a rostrum, or snout, which gives the animal its common name. The teeth have a single conical cusp, are curved backwards, and are the same on both the upper and lower jaws. Fish, the world's first true vertebrates, continued to evolve, and those with jaws may have first appeared late in the period. Vertebrates remained an obscure group until the first fish with jaws appeared in the Late Ordovician. Particularly in living population, the use of fire and tools require fewer jaw muscles, giving slender, more gracile jaws. All of these early vertebrates lacked jaws in the common sense and relied on filter feeding close to the seabed. The jaws of this type are operated by a coiled spring and the triggering mechanism is between the jaws, where the bait is held. The languette, at first very small, as in the genus Atypus, afterwards becomes elongated and advanced between the jaws. Isn't there some machine used in car wrecks to extricate people called the jaws of life? Marvin Pantangco is providing a natural, safe solution to crooked teeth, overbites, and underdeveloped jaws. None of the other 3,700 species in the Cypriniform group has any teeth in their jaws. Show More Sentences In another trial, a shrew attacked the spider by first seizing the left palp in its jaws and twisting vigorously until the palp became detached. For the most terrible of car accidents, jaws of life have to be used to extricate the injured. The talk of the day was based on different topics like orthogenetic surgery, which is related to moving the jaws. All of the women had a small oropharynx as evidenced by their small jaws and a narrowed upper airway. Before the waters die down, the orca is shaking its immense head from side to side with a sea lion pup clamped between his jaws. Like a snapping turtle, it looks ready to clamp its prey between its two curved jaws, to cut them to pieces with its teeth. The jaws were furnished with hooks or hamated teeth, in the manner common to snakes. Hence the barrel chest, the thick hammer-like head, the strong jaws, their perseverance and stamina. Mouth is without jaws in lampreys and hagfishes and bounded by jaws in all other vertebrates. The jaws of leaf-cutter ants and locusts, for example, both contain high levels of zinc, making them particularly stiff and hard. They found that australopith faces and jaws were strongest in just those areas most likely to receive a blow from a fist. The snakes can flip their jaws several times a second, pulling meals down the hatch in an eye blink. With gaping jaws, an eellike tail and sharp, jutting teeth, the Atlantic wolffish looks more like a feral canine than a marine fish. Males develop hooked jaws known as kypes and take on a brilliant red colour. A SCREAMING boy had his skull fractured when an American bulldog clamped its jaws round his head. The main differences being the needle-nose pliers have a cap crimper configured into the jaws, plus fuse wirecutters and a C4 punch. No dentulous jaws of multituberculates found in deposits of Early Cretaceous age have yet been described. You can also clamp it in a vise with soft jaws and use a wire wheel in an air drill. But the strangler's disquiet proved unbased. The snarl opened its jaws and Shelyid popped out, none the worse for wear. The seawolf twisted onto itself, its jaws clopping together near its own tail. Show More Sentences A newly developed servo-drive design produces a hypocycloidal motion of travel for the bag sealing jaws. Its four-jaw clamping system uses the same jaws that have proved successful in the DCD sealed puller for the last five years. Examples include tank tracks, bulldozer blade edges and cutting blades on the jaws of life. The tooth-bearing portion of the lower jaws are short so that the postcoronoid portion is longer than the precoronoid one. Often, however, gun dealers are unwilling to play the part of sheep awaiting, the fleecers shears or the wolf's jaws. Called placoderms, these extinct animals were among the earliest vertebrates with jaws. Cephalopods are primarily predatory, and the radula takes a secondary role to the jaws and tentacles in food acquisition. The teeth are small, pectinate or setiform in several series on the jaws and the vomer. He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine. Small, fast moving prey may be caught by a flick of the tongue while larger items are grabbed with the jaws. Despite being venomous, these species rely on their strong jaws to kill prey. Hissing, a typical reptilian sound, is mostly produced by larger species as part of a threat display, accompanying gaping jaws. The gray wolf's head is large and heavy, with a wide forehead, strong jaws and a long, blunt muzzle. Badgers can easily breach bee hives with their jaws, and are mostly indifferent to bee stings, even when set upon by swarms. Red foxes may give way to hyenas on unopened carcasses, as the latter's stronger jaws can easily tear open flesh that is too tough for foxes. The jaws have euhyostylic type suspension, which relies completely on the hyomandibular cartilages for support. Genera from the Oligocene and early and middle Miocene, with the possible exception of Aulophyseter, had teeth in their upper jaws. It then closes its jaws and pushes the water back out of its mouth through its baleen, which allows the water to leave while trapping the prey. Behind the jaws is a short esophagus and a large, blind stomach cavity which occupies much of the dorsal half of the disk. The underside of the disk contains the mouth, which has five toothed jaws formed from skeletal plates. Show More Sentences Hollier was a chomper, his jaws working up and down like pistons, and without seeming to be greedy he ate a great deal. Its jaws use a mystery-element-containing mineral called atacamite. It's a 100-acre wildlife park populated by thousands of alligators with breathtaking zip-line rides above the snapping jaws of those basking in the mud below. The process of development can be traced by following the evolution of pelycosaurs to cynodonts, whose jaws and related muscular features were much closer to those of mammals. The mouth is terminal with jaws that are not particularly elongated. To unscrew the bell-shaped cover of a conventional tap, pad the jaws of a spanner or pipe wrench with a cloth to avoid damaging the surface of the tap. Neural crest cells migrate through the body from the nerve cord during development, and initiate the formation of neural ganglia and structures such as the jaws and skull. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Because the sides of the jaw can move independently of one another, snakes resting their jaws on a surface have sensitive stereo hearing which can detect the position of prey. The JACK IN THE MUD, evolved from the deep-sea tube worm, will bury itself in the sand, leaping out to seize diving Moonracers in its massive jaws and suffocate them for food. Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon. With his right hand, he held the 12-inch bang stick straight out, arm fully extended as the sharks jaws gaped wide to display its full arsenal of frightening weaponry. The mouth is a transverse slit, which shows no teeth, nor any jaws properly so called, and therefore affords an apparent support to the agnathous theory of the Ostracodermi. While their masters, the mates, seemed afraid of the sound of the hinges of their own jaws, the harpooneers chewed their food with such a relish that there was a report to it. A chuck has movable jaws that can grip the workpiece securely. The Texas pocket gopher avoids emerging onto the surface to feed by seizing the roots of plants with its jaws and pulling them downwards into its burrow. They are osteoclastomas that are very similar both radiologically and histologically to giant cell granulomas, which are lesions that occur almost exclusively in the jaws. The red wobbled in the jaws of the pocket, but didn't go down. Gulls have unhinging jaws which allow them to consume large prey. The documentary film crew continues to follow the escapades of courageous Cody Maverick, a Rockhopper penguin whose father died in the jaws of a killer whale. Show More Sentences Crocodiles can thus be subdued for study or transport by taping their jaws or holding their jaws shut with large rubber bands cut from automobile inner tubes. We would have cases coming in of people with completely dislocated jaws, there was a man whose face was battered by a bull, some of the goriest sights ever. Turtles have rigid beaks and use their jaws to cut and chew food. All you could see of the alligator were its two eyes above the water, and suddenly it snatched up and caught the poor bird with its strong jaws full of sharp teeth. They often have extensible, hinged jaws with recurved teeth. Another puzzle is that numerous heavy, non-meaty bones such as scapulae, jaws and pelvises are present, as well as isolated molars, tusks and skulls. Examples from Classical Literature Three or four of these jaws are bolted to the faceplate which is converted into a kind of independent chuck. Many species of the genus have a gular sac, opening anteriorly between the jaws. The ancients would have represented it as a sea-monster with open jaws, more terrible than Scylla and Charybdis. This father would not even look at the son that had but just escaped the jaws of death! That maiden-sword of the world was fleshed to save a maiden from the jaws of a monster. In addition to the part of the cranium anterior to the glenoid fossae, the lower jaws are preserved complete. But the man of old might as well have tried to escape from the jaws of the saber-toothed tiger. Fluff-Button doubled away nimbly from his rush, but even so the dog's jaws snapped together just behind his scut. She felt for the first time an impulse to box his lazy jaws as he yawned and turned over for the dozenth time without rising. The entomologist had got almost up to the twelve-foot jaws that closed the exit. The teeth are large and acrodont, and occur on the pterygoids as well as on the jaws. Fido, with burning eyes and distended jaws, ran and yelped as if he were mad. At length it could no longer resist its fate and it fluttered into its enemy's jaws. The gape of his enormous jaws was nearly as wide as the gateway of the king's palace. My teeth chattered like castanets, jarring in my jaws until it was painful. He bares his arms, and chucks the food into his mouth without ever moving his jaws. Much later he shook his head, opened his eyes, then chomped his jaws on the pain. The arpa or drum of Oceana is made of wood, and imitates the head and jaws of a crocodile, with a handle for carrying purposes. His ears were alert, his eyes happy, and there was a doggy smile on his jaws. Cartilaginous jaws would not fossilize, and the Ostracoderms may have possessed them. Show More Sentences In the driver ant of West Africa one kind of neuter is three times the size of the other, and has jaws nearly five times as long. John Thompson of Ellington had a bullet hole through his jaws, incapacitating him for further service. Its mouth and jaws have quite disappeared, and the legs and claspers are apparently gone. The jaws, the uneven lobate disk of the preoperculum and the branchiostegous membrane are naked, the rest of them being scaly. The greater part of the buccal cavity is filled with the tongue and jaws just described. The two jaws are articulated together, and the cartilages of the two sides composing them meet each other distally. Whether a bushing or jaws are used, the turning tool is slightly in advance of the supporting member. Soames convulsively clenched his jaws, for his teeth were beginning to chatter. Another was placed under the cascabel, which was supported by General and Dummy, with Rosebud at the jaws. When in the foetal state these whales have numerous minute teeth lying in the dental groove of both upper and lower jaws. The brown, crimpled skin of his neck showed the big veins which sank under his jaws and reappeared at his temples. Honey for bait, great steel traps with crocodilian jaws, and guns there were in the outfit. There shall be put into her jaws a bridle that shall be made on the coast of Armorica. The big fellow could stand what he must with set jaws when he was sentient. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of jaws? Words that rhyme with jaws What is the adjective for jaws? What is the noun for jaws? Translations for jaws Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words jawn jawline jawless jawing jawfish jawed JAWS Jax Jaxartes jay Jay jaya 4-letter Words Starting With j ja jaw