maw
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The holes reminded 4-year-old Uri of a hippo he’d seen at the zoo, which opened its maw “like a deep cave” to reveal enormous teeth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Nothing has come from months of sending my applications into the gaping maw of a broken ATS.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2025
Even the movies aren’t really movies anymore, just raw material for the streaming maw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2025
If this much solar mass in a young universe was annually being forever lost into the gaping maw of a black hole, it would be less unusual.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2024
Moqorro shouted something, and green flames leapt from the dragon’s maw atop his staff to vanish in the night.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Vocabulary lists containing maw
Romeo and Juliet
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The Tragedy of Macbeth
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The Odyssey
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