jugular

Example Sentences

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Normal foreign policy considerations regarding conflict with a country of 90 million people situated astride the world’s oil jugular do not come into play.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

“It’s really going for the jugular, and in a major way,” said Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, a Washington think tank.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 8, 2026

At 21-0 up, they were camped on the Argentina line, looking to go for the jugular.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

“I personally can’t think of one where it just jumped out and got its teeth around the jugular of the media and stayed there,” he said.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2025

To do it properly I know I have to wait to spring efficiently, intensely, in such a way as to get to the jugular of the whole thing in one or two swipes.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali