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One led me down into the dark maw of an underground cellblock, which connected the two buildings.
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The material that doesn't fall into the maw of the central black hole can be channeled to the poles of the black hole.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
This comes from the same shared nightmare of the Sisterhood, replete with the terrifying black maw and blue machine lights.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
As art would no longer respond to itself, and no longer had any constraints, other human activities could be drawn from the world into its hungry maw.
—Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
The material that doesn't fall into the maw of the central black hole can be channeled to the poles of the black hole.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Jan. 2025
This comes from the same shared nightmare of the Sisterhood, replete with the terrifying black maw and blue machine lights.
—Jeff Spry, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
As art would no longer respond to itself, and no longer had any constraints, other human activities could be drawn from the world into its hungry maw.
—Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for maw
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“Maw.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maw. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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