| Man has no hope for salvation, only a chance for dignity, gained by absurdly carrying on in the face of the yawning maw of the meaningless abyss. |
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| If I wasn't learning about it from friends or college radio, it was via the vast maw of underground 80s zines. |
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| The cash bribe is rarely encountered in this hard-up hobby where every spare penny goes to the ever-open maw of the Post Office. |
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| A cheetah bounds into a picture, large as life, head thrown back and maw wide, roaring over a rib cage. |
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| I was staring down at a maw of blackness that had robbed me of my hope and future. |
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| He chafed a begrimed hand across a similarly soiled mouth, maw gaping wide in a grin, to reveal ebony teeth with fallow flashes of gold. |
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| With hordes of yellow pilotfish bouncing off its nose, and longer than I am tall, it could have sucked me into its maw in one watery gasp. |
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| A cheetah bounds into a picture, large as life, head thrown back and maw wide, roaring or yawning over a rib cage. |
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| In the gaping maw of publishing, the independents tend to be modest about their work. |
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| I'm going to jam every bit of everything offered into my greedy maw until my curiosity is assuaged. |
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| Character after character gets vacuumed up by the camera-hogging alien, all of whom shriek and flail as they disappear into its oversized maw. |
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| Called the Mouth of Truth, this carved face with gaping maw is a sort of primitive lie detector. |
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| That's done quickly, brutally, the maw rising and falling in quick slashes and dumping the mud to the side. |
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| And the distillery, soon to be delisted for other reasons, produced strong results before falling into the maw of the Parisians. |
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| This particular one now being full, he carefully sealed the lid and readjusted his belt so that the maw of an empty jar gaped up at him. |
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| A guerrilla soldier clung stubbornly to our clothesline pole, his foot trapped in the maw of my father's security dog, a Ridgeback. |
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| The four-foot long furry slug raised itself up around her shoulders and a cavernous maw gaped at me. |
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| This may simply reflect who expects to be the likely winners and losers from tossing homeowners into the maw of local political processes. |
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| During waking hours she's fielding phone calls every weekend, eager to feed the greedy maw of celebrity gossip. |
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| Worse yet, in the 1600s Spaniards lowered themselves into the coughing maw, thinking it contained gold. |
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| Slowly, its lower jaw dropped until its mouth was an impossible maw, a gaping hole that defied definition. |
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| These neatly landscaped grounds will be largely empty of people, who will usually enter and leave the towers by car from the gaping maw of a parkade off the Ring Road. |
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| This gentleman is every bit as frightening as Darth Vader, complete with cape, dark red jumpsuit, and a bear-trap maw topped by a tattooed white dome. |
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| I tried to open the maw more but only managed to damage the teeth, forcing me to repair them with green stuff! |
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| One has been artificially lowered, by playing on knee angles, and his maw has been closed with pliers. |
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| In other words, not only are Member States' civil servants being absorbed into the maw of the Community, but the courts are too. |
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| When she opened her eyes, a large, gaping maw of a cave awaited them. |
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| Ahead, I could just make out the maw of the next dreaded tunnel. |
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| The other is that people actually lose skills and many of them fall into the maw of depression. |
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| Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. |
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| I'm the last man on earth to suggest you should stay home and shovel squash into a toothless maw just because that's the thing you're supposed to do. |
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| No posting until I've shoveled some antibiotics into my maw. |
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| Having been caught red-handed with a smoking bong firmly pasted to his maw, the long knives are out for the Olympic hero. |
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| Passing through plumes of evil-smelling sulphurous smoke and steam, they finally encountered daylight, and emerged from the gaping maw of a volcanic cone. |
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| Provided you didn't surrender your ticket into the maw of the gateline at B, you could in theory go back to A and do the whole trip again. |
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| Privately, they admit they have to provide the data that feed that maw. |
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| It's almost as if nothing can escape the black hole of bringing any apparatus or part of what it is to be a Sri Lankan today into this ethnic maw. |
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| Roundworms, of which only the maw worms are of importance to us. |
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| It lies still on the bottom, the marine version of Venus' flytrap, until an unsuspecting critter swims within range of its deadly maw. |
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| But here comes woesome old me and my maw down the yard with battered suitcases arriving almost like phantoms dripping from the sea. |
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| Before the industrial revolution, whole forests disappeared into the charcoal-burners' maw to provide the carbon that ironmakers need to reduce their ore to metal. |
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| She did not eat blood-oranges. Her maw gived her one in a poke and she was going to throw it in the bin, Oh it is all black. |
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| A substantial part of the party distrusts the prime minister, presuming that his plan is to draw the Lib Dems' teeth and then to swallow the party whole inside the maw of New Labour. |
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| He did not like me coming in except if I was going to bed. I heard him saying to my maw about a snib for the door. |
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| Pigs, cows and sheep and wee ducks, that was what he bought and it was just for weans and wee lasses. I said it to my maw. |
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| Giving us company were various parts of various sea creatures, from fish maw to duck gizzard. |
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| Every Tuesday the house'd be ram-packed with reject chocolate biscuits that my maw brought home from the factory she worked in. |
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