How to Use jawbone in a Sentence

jawbone

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• And the fourth is behind your ears, in line with the top of your jawbone.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
• There were moose and elk antlers and the upper jawbone of a mastodon.
  — Jon Meacham, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2013
• The jawbone, for example, comes to a point in the front.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020
• Maybe tumble weeds, or the ground is made out of jawbones.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• The jawbone is part of an adult mandible, but its height points to a person of short stature and small body size.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 6 June 2018
• Her head had been burned in a fire and only a jawbone, some teeth and some pieces of her skull were found.
  — Taylor Pettaway, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2021
• The entire ear may be covered but should not exceed the corner of the jawbone on the sides.
  — Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 24 Aug. 2017
• The grooming code states hair should not come down past the top of the eyebrows or extend past the corner of the jawbone on the sides.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2017
• The jawbone is the only remnant of any hominin species found so far.
  — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2018
• Then came part of a jawbone, followed by a human tooth.
  — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2019
• This is how the brown resin jawbone graveyard above his desk got started.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
• However, the jawbone, while thought by many to be Denisovan, was not an open-and-shut case.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 May 2022
• Those peaches are so sweet that your jawbones will crack from the sensation and joy.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• The explorers did remove one bone from the pit that turned out to be part of a human jawbone, about 2,500 years old.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 14 Dec. 2021
• The crew enlarged a crawl space to construct more apartments and found the bones, which included a skull and jawbone.
  — Kathleen Joyce, Fox News, 5 May 2018
• Start at the lips, kissing without tongue gently down towards the chin, then all along the jawbone, towards the ear.
  — Bernadette Anat, Seventeen, 29 Sep. 2020
• Jude’s face landed next to what appeared to be a massive jawbone.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 19 July 2017
• But instead of shark teeth, the diver found a jawbone, with a molar still attached.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2018
• While most of the jawbones go to the pile at the ceremonial sites, the first-year captain keeps one from their first harvest.
  — Alena Naiden, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2023
• The researchers extracted proteins from both the jawbone and the tooth dentine.
  — National Geographic, 1 May 2019
• Perkins also found the horse's jawbone, a rib and some vertebrae in the pile of dirt excavated for the 6-foot-deep pool.
  — David Williams, CNN, 30 Apr. 2021
• The mammoth’s jawbone, containing molars the size of a man’s shoe, was collected at the same site.
  — Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• The bones belonged to the jawbone of a gigantic ichthyosaur, an aquatic dinosaur roughly the size of a modern-day blue whale.
  — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 11 Apr. 2024
• Fernanda opens her eyes and sees Annelise, who no longer has a head but a thinking jawbone.
  — Benjamin P. Russell, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2022
• Dental records were used to identify the skull and jawbone as belonging to Paige.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 7 Sep. 2023
• At least one contained a human skull with a golden tongue nestled in its jawbone.
  — Jacey Fortin, Star Tribune, 11 Feb. 2021
• The oral surgeon then drills a hole in the patient's jawbone and screws the titanium implant into that hole.
  — Geri Stengel, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Back in the lab, Haile-Selassie’s team found that the skull’s jawbones and teeth most closely resembled those of A. anamensis.
  — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
• The next day, detectives found a skull that had a fracture on the left side, showing blunt-force trauma, and was a missing jawbone, the warrant says.
  — Angie Dimichele, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Dec. 2021
• But as the jawbone healed, perhaps in three, four, five months, Tashay later could be fitted with a partial denture.
  — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 4 Feb. 2024

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jawbone

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• Trump has been jawboning the Fed to cut rates for months, aiming a barrage of tweets and comments at the central bank.
  — Matt Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• Since the 1970s oil prices have, in at least the short run, been susceptible to jawboning from producers and, to a lesser extent, the White House.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 5 July 2018
• If the end game is really the president, as some people in the White House are saying, is just jawboning the allies to pony up more, great.
  — Fox News, 12 July 2018
• But jawboning companies into keeping employees in the U.S. is just a short-term fix that won’t address the long-term forces causing jobs to disappear.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 19 Apr. 2017
• President Donald Trump boasts of jawboning bosses on where to build factories.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• What Congress can do is work with the administration to try to jawbone them into relieving these tariffs, said Sensenbrenner.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
• His top five tweets: Economy Whether jawboning the Federal Reserve or touting the latest economic number, many of his tweets have touched on the nation's financial state.
  — USA Today, 17 Oct. 2019
• These were powerful, articulate men who, one would imagine, didn’t mind taking the occasional long meeting, or jawboning on the phone.
  — Tom Gliatto, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Trump has been jawboning the Fed to cut rates for months, aiming a barrage of tweets and comments at the central bank.
  — Matt Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• Since the 1970s oil prices have, in at least the short run, been susceptible to jawboning from producers and, to a lesser extent, the White House.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 5 July 2018
• If the end game is really the president, as some people in the White House are saying, is just jawboning the allies to pony up more, great.
  — Fox News, 12 July 2018
• But jawboning companies into keeping employees in the U.S. is just a short-term fix that won’t address the long-term forces causing jobs to disappear.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 19 Apr. 2017
• President Donald Trump boasts of jawboning bosses on where to build factories.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• What Congress can do is work with the administration to try to jawbone them into relieving these tariffs, said Sensenbrenner.
  — Karen Pilarski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2018
• His top five tweets: Economy Whether jawboning the Federal Reserve or touting the latest economic number, many of his tweets have touched on the nation's financial state.
  — USA Today, 17 Oct. 2019
• These were powerful, articulate men who, one would imagine, didn’t mind taking the occasional long meeting, or jawboning on the phone.
  — Tom Gliatto, EW.com, 2 Oct. 2019

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