(1) This may simply reflect who expects to be the likely winners and losers from tossing homeowners into the maw of local political processes.

(2) The four-foot long furry slug raised itself up around her shoulders and a cavernous maw gaped at me.

(3) 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.

(4) Worse yet, in the 1600s Spaniards lowered themselves into the coughing maw , thinking it contained gold.

(5) Slowly, its lower jaw dropped until its mouth was an impossible maw , a gaping hole that defied definition.

(6) I'm going to jam every bit of everything offered into my greedy maw until my curiosity is assuaged.

(7) 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.

(8) When she opened her eyes, a large, gaping maw of a cave awaited them.

(9) I was cramming large pieces of toast and cheese down my maw

(10) No posting until I've shoveled some antibiotics into my maw .

(11) Here we stand, blinking and afraid, peering into the humid maw of 2004.

(12) 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.

(13) Ahead, I could just make out the maw of the next dreaded tunnel.

(14) A gigantic wolfhound with a fearful, gaping maw

(15) During waking hours she's fielding phone calls every weekend, eager to feed the greedy maw of celebrity gossip.

(16) Character after character gets vacuumed up by the camera-hogging alien, all of whom shriek and flail as they disappear into its oversized maw .

(17) 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.

(18) A guerrilla soldier clung stubbornly to our clothesline pole, his foot trapped in the maw of my father's security dog, a Ridgeback.

(19) His mouth was stretched like the maw of a serpent.

(20) Some chunks of the concrete even lay on the ground below gaping maws where they used to reside.