The word "jaws" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the mouth of an animal or a person, as in this example sentence: "The cow opened its huge jaws slowly."
The nymph's extendable mouth parts, housed behind serrated jaws, are the stuff of a science-fiction nightmare, part of the inspiration for HR Giger's creature from the film Alien, a fragment from the palaeozoic era projected on to a dystopian future.
The 28-year-old media executive was born with crowded jaws, a 1cm overbite and front teeth that stuck out in a V.
Without a mechanism that is both fair and based on quasi-judicial principles, it is impossible to imagine that Northern Ireland will ever successfully move out of the clenched jaws of its grisly past".
And every week, there is a new story about tax avoidance or outrageous corruption, both the main parties involved, both culpable, both apparently supine, even floppy, like rabbits in the jaws of corporate interests.
It would be far better for the prime minister to clamp his wobbly jaws on the bullet and to take RBS and Lloyds/HBOS into full public ownership.
Suddenly, I was back in the mid-80s, sitting in a chair just like this, terrified by the latest in a series of extractions I was about to undergo due to my overcrowded jaws.
But the Liberal Democrat cabinet minister Danny Alexander, a leading Better Together strategist, said Cameron seemed to be "trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory".
They have been here before and have always blown it, defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
They dangle from ropes clenched in their jaws.
"Talk about trying to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory," Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the Treasury, told the Guardian of Cameron's statement.
Maybe he coaxed those jaws into a snarl.
