jawbone

Example Sentences

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Titanium posts will be inserted into his jawbone, serving as new roots for the teeth.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

The tooth, from a cow's jawbone found beside the ancient monument's south entrance in 1924, was analysed by scientists from the British Geological Society, Cardiff University and University College London.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

The jawbone dates back to the monument's very beginning in 2995 to 2900 BC and was placed in a ritually significant place.

From BBC • Aug. 22, 2025

A jawbone found in a child’s rock collection in Arizona more than two decades ago belonged to a Marine who died in California in 1951 and was buried in Missouri, the authorities said on Friday.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2024

I’d dropped an oar, and in the confusion of retrieving it I felt his fingertips brush in a casual yet deliberate fashion along my cheek near the jawbone.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt