jawbone
noun
jaw·bone
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Definition of jawbone
(Entry 1 of 2)
: jaw sense 1a
especially
: mandible
jawbone
verb
jawboned;
jawboning;
jawbones
Definition of jawbone (Entry 2 of 2)
: to speak forcefully and persuasively to
jawboned them into accepting the deal
: to talk especially forcefully and persuasively
jawboning about the tax cuts
Examples of jawbone in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
Those peaches are so sweet that your jawbones will crack from the sensation and joy. — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, "Column: Lamenting the last of Tom Ringhausen’s Calhoun County peaches, so sweet they’ll crack your jawbones off.," 29 Aug. 2019 Newer implants have improved designs that heal faster and better integrate into jawbone. — Washington Post, "Pricey dental implants often best but insurance rarely pays," 14 Mar. 2018 Energy efficient Teeth might feel solidly embedded in the skull and jaw, but as anyone who's worn braces can tell you, teeth can shift and drift in the jawbone quite a bit as people age. — Michael Greshko, National Geographic, "A change in our diets may have changed the way we speak," 14 Mar. 2019 But, there was a partial jawbone, some loose teeth, an upper arm bone with a gunshot wound and a vertebra near the neck -- with evidence of sharp force injuries. — CBS News, ""To the families we owe justice": Inside NCIS' relentless quest to solve two cold case murders of Navy dependents," 3 July 2019 Agence-France Presse reports that an international collaboration of researchers came to that conclusion after taking a look at Louis’ jawbone, which is buried in Notre Dame Cathedral. — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, "Fear of Foreign Food May Have Led to the Death of This Crusader King," 26 June 2019 Zhang’s excitement is justified: the jawbone, known as the Xiahe mandible after the county in China where it was found, fills a yawning gap in our understanding of this mysterious ancient. — National Geographic, "Mysterious ancient human found on the ‘roof of the world’," 1 May 2019 The study focuses on a jawbone belonging to a Neanderthal girl, first discovered within Scladina Cave, Belgium, in 1993 and the femur of a male Neanderthal from Hohlenstein-Stadel Cave, Germany, found in 1937. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Bones uncover mysterious early history of the Neanderthals," 26 June 2019 The surgeons who treated Austin Adams in Utah needed to sew his gumline back together, then put plates on the jawbone itself to stabilize it. — Erika Edwards, NBC News, "Vape pen explodes, shattering teen's jaw amid rising concerns over batteries," 19 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
President Donald Trump boasts of jawboning bosses on where to build factories. — The Economist, "What companies are for," 22 Aug. 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, "Fed Chair Powell Signals Openness to Rate Cut, and Stock Market Rallies," 10 July 2019 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, "The politics of Trump's tough love for NATO," 12 July 2018 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, "Businessman says Trump tariffs will lead to cutbacks at Menomonee Falls firm. Sensenbrenner said Congress doesn't have the vote to stop him.," 10 July 2018 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, "Oil’s Twitter War May End Badly for Trump," 5 July 2018 Witness a scene Wednesday at the White House where Trump hosted the entire Republican Senate conference as a way of jawboning them about the health care bill, which appears to be hopelessly stalled. — Chris Cillizza, CNN, "Donald Trump threatened Dean Heller on health care. Heller was sitting next to him.," 19 July 2017 Mark Muro, at economist at the Brookings Institution who focuses on manufacturing, said the drama in industrial Indianapolis highlights how Trump can't jawbone firms with 140-character swipes. — Danielle Paquette, chicagotribune.com, "A company under Trump attack makes a bold move: It repeatedly ignores him," 19 May 2017 But jawboning companies into keeping employees in the U.S. is just a short-term fix that won’t address the long-term forces causing jobs to disappear. — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, "How Harvard Business School Helped Turn Steve Bannon into a Monster," 19 Apr. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'jawbone.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for jawbone
jawbone
noun
English Language Learners Definition of jawbone
: the bone that forms the lower jaw
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jawbone
noun
jaw·bone
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Kids Definition of jawbone
jawbone
noun
jaw·bone
| \ ˈjȯ-ˈbōn, -ˌbōn
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Medical Definition of jawbone
: jaw sense 1
especially
: mandible
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