iron-jawed

Example Sentences

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As Wheatley, McDermott spent two seasons as the primary nemesis to Christopher Meloni’s iron-jawed detective, Elliot Stabler, before soaring off “Organized Crime” in March — Wheatley’s ex-wife drove herself off a cliff while Wheatley rode shotgun; her body was found but his was not.

From New York Times

Damien Chazelle’s film about the iron-jawed, ice-water-in-the-veins pilot and astronaut Neil Armstrong is a rocket pointed directly at the distant planet known as Awards Season.

From The Guardian

And so this reporter found himself hooked up, buttoned down, tethered to some reliable, iron-jawed first responders and climbing gingerly into a Potomac that was — according to the monitors at the Little Falls Pump Station — just .04 of a degree on the wet side of frozen.

From Washington Post

Jake LaMotta, an iron-jawed boxer who brawled his way to the world middleweight championship in 1949 and whose tempestuous life was compellingly portrayed in an Oscar-winning performance by Robert De Niro in the film “Raging Bull,” died Sept. 19 at a rehabilitation facility in Aventura, Fla.

From Washington Post

And somehow, they remain an iron-jawed bunch.

From Washington Post