Sentence examples for jaws work from inspiring English sources

Robust, thick jaws are excellent at crushing snails, while longer jaws work well for sucking up algae.

— Julia Moskin The New Yorker: Knives and forks have not only changed the ways we cook and eat, they may have also transformed how our jaws work.

People are dehumanised: Jews flow between train carriage and gas chamber "like water from an open tap"; "Around us sit the Greeks, their jaws working greedily like huge human insects"; "From afar the women were faceless and ageless.

His custom-built red wheelchair has a seat-back cushion with an image of a stallion rearing from a wheelchair; as he rolled himself up and down the halls of Akson, his jaws working fervently, you felt that the same image was in his head.

Miriam is feeling good, the pain in her hip subsiding under the ministrations of the prescription the doctor gave her, while Sid, home from work because things are slow, is sitting across the table from her, his head bowed to the paper, jaws working at the bagel she's smeared with cream cheese and decorated with a transparent wafer of lox and a sprinkle of capers.

My father never spoke of hunger, but he told that story at our dinner table -- the veins rising in his forehead as he chewed, his arm like a piston bringing the fork to his mouth, no talking, just the sound of his jaws working.

"She looks like she got some jaw work going on there," Johnston says.

It causes decreased jaw work, causing vacuum sucking movements with the tongue, lips and cheeks, which may lead the tongue to press the nipple against the palate, thus generating a high palate and crossing the bite in the posterior region [ 37].

His jaw works hard.

Stillman peers fixedly across the table; his jaw working furiously.

He nodded and looked down, jaw working, feet shuffling.