How to Use jawbone in a Sentence

jawbone

1 of 2 noun
  • There were moose and elk antlers and the upper jawbone of a mastodon.
    — Jon Meacham, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2013
  • And the fourth is behind your ears, in line with the top of your jawbone.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This is how the brown resin jawbone graveyard above his desk got started.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Over time, the team discovered eight more jawbones with the same twist.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The phone zooms in to show the details of the shoe, of the jawbone missing a tooth.
    — ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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 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
  • The jawbone is the only remnant of any hominin species found so far.
    — Author: Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2018
  • Those peaches are so sweet that your jawbones will crack from the sensation and joy.
    — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Jude’s face landed next to what appeared to be a massive jawbone.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 19 July 2017
  • At least one contained a human skull with a golden tongue nestled in its jawbone.
    — Jacey Fortin, Star Tribune, 11 Feb. 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
  • But instead of shark teeth, the diver found a jawbone, with a molar still attached.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The part of the jawbone that normally faces the tongue is pointed upwards.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Over time, the team discovered eight more jawbones bearing the same twist — nine in total.
    — Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • The skull and a mandible — a jawbone — were the only remains recovered.
    — Ryan Brennan, Sacbee.com, 7 Apr. 2026
  • However, the jawbone, while thought by many to be Denisovan, was not an open-and-shut case.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 May 2022
  • 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
  • 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 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, 8 Jan. 2018
  • But, notably, in both cases, no changes were observed in jawbone shape or muscle thickness.
    — Daryl Austin, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The researchers extracted proteins from both the jawbone and the tooth dentine.
    — National Geographic, 1 May 2019
  • Dental records were used to identify the skull and jawbone as belonging to Paige.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 7 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Since then, researchers have identified thousands of teeth and a few partial jawbones from the creature.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • In this case, the detritus is part of a human jawbone, with a single molar and a bit of tissue still attached.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • The jugal bone, or what could be called the cheekbone, and the maxilla, or jawbone, are fused, Bertozzo said.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025

jawbone

2 of 2 verb
  • Except, that is, for eight exceptions in which the feds may jawbone away.
    — Rob Pegoraro, The New Republic, 7 July 2023
  • Investors should by now be wise to jawboning from the White House.
    — Charles Riley, CNN, 8 Dec. 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
  • Well, that's what this editorial is about, jawboning.
    — ABC News, 21 Sep. 2025
  • For one thing, Congress just showed the power of jawboning academic leaders into cleaning up their act.
    — Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The conference circuit’s jawboning strategy — that crypto price will obey the pulpit — appears to have stopped applying.
    — Isabelle Lee, Bloomberg, 30 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Apple's action has reignited the debate about what's known as jawboning, when government officials censor speech through intimidation and threats.
    — Bobby Allyn, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The jawboning case was one of several high-profile matters the court is deciding at intersection of the First Amendment and social media.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 June 2024
  • 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
  • These comments indicate the administration is focused not on jawboning the Fed to lower its short-term rate target, but on longer-term borrowing costs set in the global bond market.
    — Neil Irwin, Axios, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Testimony can be expected as well from the two top Michigan state lawmakers who were summoned to the White House and jawboned to change the Michigan electors.
    — Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The silencing of Jimmy Kimmel and jawboning of media outlets through lawsuits and threats to their licenses evoke dark memories of the 1950s.
    — Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Since at least the 1990s, the conventional wisdom among presidents and their close advisers has been that jawboning the Fed is counterproductive.
    — Neil Irwin, Axios, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The idea is that the shadow chair could jawbone markets into easing financial conditions, such as lowering bond yields, before taking office and undermine Powell’s messaging in his final months.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 7 July 2025
  • Once known for jawboning the Saudis to pump more oil and thereby lower the price, the president now finds himself in the uncomfortable position of trying to raise oil prices so US energy companies can earn a profit.
    — Jacob Bogage, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Apr. 2020
  • There should also be accountability for government officials that jawboned social media companies like Facebook into censoring Americans’ protected speech.
    — Robert Pearlman, ArsTechnica, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The court most recently decried jawboning in a 2024 ruling in favor of the National Rifle Association, which argued a New York official had unlawfully pressured companies not to do business with the NRA.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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