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    Use "paw" in a sentence

    paw example sentences

    paw


    pawed


    pawing


    paws


    1. Here and there a mound of garbage rots in the bright sunshine, while feral cats paw through the refuse


    2. turned as he fell, and a razored paw ripped across his chest, exposing bone and torn


    3. Lucy took another step forward towards the outstretched paw


    4. The creature withdrew his right hand from his jacket pocket to reveal a slender, grey-brown paw, talons gleaming like black diamonds in the moonlight


    5. Time stood still around her, the grasses hushing their endless tidal sweep, and now, without any further movement of her feet, she felt herself glide towards his beckoning paw


    6. With one stroke of one double paw it turned over the whole campsite, scattering the fireplace, the cookware, the clothing and the blanket


    7. Through my eyelashes I watched him lift a paw and dab my chin then when I groaned he made a tactical retreat across my body to the safety of the folded sheet


    8. Mikri followed from a distance, sometimes catching up but when I reached the end of the lane, he stopped, watched me for a little, shook a paw, then turned and plodded back to the house


    9. The dog, by now on more familiar terms with its new master, raised a paw, licked its lips and waited


    10. The sour looking fox terrier, which was called Pele, stuck out his paw and tackled the young boy with ease

    11. raised a paw, licked its lips and waited


    12. his paw and tackled the young boy with ease


    13. It is convenient that the man is a south paw


    14. the east gate when a giant paw reached out and grabbed


    15. A large furry paw with claws the size of bread knives


    16. ‘In THAT direction,’ the Cat said, waving its right paw round, ‘lives a


    17. Hatter: and in THAT direction,’ waving the other paw, ‘lives a March Hare


    18. paw was withdrawn, I heard a hiss like that of an especially pissed off snake coming from my


    19. We wave at him from the car as he perches atop the desk that sits under the front window, his paw pressed against the glass


    20. “No! No!” As if to help me make my point, Ozzie rapidly swatted Nathaniel’s head with his curled paw

    21. One paw extended upside-down in full body stretch and hooked onto my sweater


    22. On cue, the actress races to the center of the living room rug, pirouettes, and topples with a wail or a pitiful eek, one paw draped over her face


    23. Paw, was fascinated with the power of the Confederate cruiser


    24. I gasped! His right front paw was swollen four times its normal size


    25. He was still feebly trying to paw at the thing that was causing him so much pain and his heels drummed a tattoo on the floor


    26. On one trip to the vet, they had to shave his paw to give him an injection, so they could operate on his face


    27. The first time we let him out again, he returned with fresh scars on the shaved paw, and I ended up in tears!


    28. Raven squirmed like a mouse trapped under the paw of a cat as the crowds around them chanted with excitement


    29. Even if Sicarius did somehow recognize it in the darkness, why would the emperor’s bracelet stop him? This man had been a burr in the empire’s paw during the years since Emperor Raumesys died


    30. There were only three white men in the vicinity, but Prempeh insisted on shaking hands with all; I can feel the grip of that clammy paw again, as I write

    31. Next, he used some of the claws on his left paw to rake the ropes on the side of the tree, which seemed to have a greater effect


    32. Flopper, we are,” chirped Carl, while Frumple covered his head with his giant paw and asked for forgiveness


    33. There was even a picture of Harold with Lassie, complete with an autograph of Lassie’s paw


    34. The cat hissed, raising its paw, rage flooding its mind


    35. They were asymmetrical, even lopsided, with five clawed digits on one paw and four on the other, none of them balanced


    36. The beast twisted in midair to rake a massive paw across his back


    37. When Alex reached out the cat lifted a paw, extending its claws, hissing and growling in the back of its throat


    38. As if trying not to break the long grass she carefully put one paw in front of the other


    39. � She took Lancelot�s paw and Bill�s hand and marched on


    40. Soffen slapped her paw on the ground, giving a grunt of satisfaction as she caught a beetle scuttling from beneath a nearby stone

    41. Soffen grabbed his paw excitedly


    42. "But it's not just that," he countered, placing a paw on her flank, indicating the clearing in which they were standing


    43. Stumbling forward, repelled and fascinated at the same time, Grindel tentatively reached out a trembling paw towards the severed head


    44. Soffen placed a paw on Grey's flank, gazing up at him


    45. With a flick of its tail the fish edged nearer to the bank and Grey, moving with a speed that caught Broshee by surprise, plunged his paw deep into the river


    46. Later that moon, Broshee placed a paw on Brock's flank


    47. It had left Skelda's father seriously injured and from that moon forward the old boar had never laid a paw on his young boar again


    48. Brock settled beside her, his paw resting lightly against her flank, his thoughts turning idly to the events of the past few moons


    49. Holding a paw aloft, Grindel implored the throng to silence once more


    50. After a small commotion we smeared all four paws and the next day he brought tears to my eyes when he sat down and gave me each paw without any unpleasantness to treat














































    1. were slow to heal because of how the sailors pawed me


    2. Our transport was parked with other horse drawn wagons under the trees and we watched as the horses pawed the ground nervously


    3. As soon as she returned, he pawed and meowed outside her door


    4. The girl, however, wasn’t about to be pawed a moment longer than necessary and immediately changed her tactics


    5. Teeth glistened through a bloody gap where his cheek should have been, and as he pawed at the window with fingerless hands, he left runnels of blood running down the glass


    6. He pawed at her, drawing her close, but she felt only revulsion and fought, freeing herself by shoving forcefully against him


    7. He pawed through the contents


    8. Still the man held her head back as she pawed and clutched at her throat, and wet, dark blood rained out of her


    9. They pawed through the clothes until they found the documents that were underneath them


    10. A rage of helpless frustration roused Moshe nearly to wakefulness as he pawed uselessly at the nothingness that surrounded him

    11. As morning wore into noon and then afternoon, a steady stream of people in an antlike two-way column carried off all that had been resurrected by those who pawed again and again through the death and destruction for anything of value


    12. “Yes, those are chariots!” he exclaimed as his mount pawed the sand nervously


    13. A rage of helpless frustration roused Moshe nearly to wakefulness as he pawed uselessly at


    14. way column carried off all that had been resurrected by those who pawed again and again


    15. pawed the sand nervously


    16. Such a howl had never been heard before as it dropped the man back into the snowdrift and pawed at its blinded eye


    17. The boar grunted and pawed the ground, ready to charge


    18. The beast pawed the sand, glaring at me with beady eyes as it lowered its razor-sharp tusks and waited for the command to kill


    19. The bul pawed the floor


    20. I pawed the letters on top of the other ones making a jumbled mess but she understood

    21. He shook his head from side to side, pawed at it, and opened his mouth repeatedly to its widest extent


    22. When we found a pretty little meadow in the woods, Diomed stopped and pawed the ground, digging furrows in the mound of jonquils that were just popping open


    23. I pawed through the small baggies of herbs she brought, sniffing each one


    24. I nodded in the affirmative and then gently pawed Alejandro"s hands


    25. I crawled unto Vlad’s lap, gently pawed his face and then


    26. I grinned at Vlad, gently pawed his face and then made it


    27. I pawed her face and gave her a light kiss on the chin


    28. on the cheek, pawed his face several times, licked his chin, and


    29. I gently pawed her face, then licked her face, then


    30. In response, I pawed her face

    31. pawed her face and told her that I love her


    32. mount McKinley then pawed the painting until it fell onto the


    33. soon as he saw me He kissed me on the cheeks then gently pawed


    34. to Lydia’s room then pawed on the door


    35. Graisse looked at Ashley, lowered his head and pawed in her direction, whimpering


    36. He pawed at the air


    37. He pawed at the air as though trying to touch her image up so high


    38. When Jeff set Ashley on the bed, Graisse’s tail wagged violently as he licked and pawed at her legs


    39. pawed his face, forcing him to look me in the eyes while I was


    40. The mare reared up, whinnied, pawed at the air and galloped off to the back with the other horses

    41. My mother pawed at the apartment door, over and over again


    42. she pawed away the tears that were dribbling down her best


    43. So, she gently pawed Cynthia's face


    44. My mother pawed Cynthia's face then she gently rubbed the


    45. My mother gently pawed and patted Cynthia's face for


    46. My mother gently pawed, and patted Cynthia's chin


    47. My mother gently pawed Cynthia's chin, then licked the back


    48. My mother gently pawed Cynthia's face then licked her chin


    49. My mother gently bit it then pawed it away


    50. As soon as my mother was free, she gently pawed the brown












































    1. "He was pawing Emma, like an animal in heat


    2. He ran to the entrance, pawing the boulders and vainly trying to move them or chip away at them


    3. While I lay trembling under the blanket, Oz began flicking my earlobe and pawing at my face


    4. Grouchie shook its head, pawing at its neck, knocking the dart free, but the anaesthetic had already begun to have an affect


    5. Such a tiny thing, panting and pawing the glass at everyone who walked passed


    6. he'll start pawing at the towel


    7. As I sat in the nice warm car and I watched them argue at each other in the pawing rain, I couldn’t hear much because the rain was hitting the car so hard


    8. “I love you” she whispered I could see the love pawing out of her eyes to mine


    9. Every movement uphill gained by the animal's rapidly pawing hooves also


    10. I moved closer to it, pawing the stone until I found a divot on

    11. He begins pawing, trying pathetically to kiss her, thrashing her forehead with his bushy eye brows


    12. But he continued to snap and snarl, pawing the air in front of him as he strained to break free from his tether


    13. The bull-man grunted, pawing the ground


    14. Her statement, accusing him of pawing


    15. was the term you used, my hand pawing at you? How in the hell do


    16. He played with the meat, pawing at it until it worked loose from the wire before swallowing it


    17. through her top and started pawing her


    18. Chica sipped it delicately, pawing out pieces of vegetables and venison, not making nearly the mess of it that the dogs did when Pedro gave them leftovers in his own bowl


    19. Pawing a feather from his mouth, JY sat as a swearing Sam Duff broke through the thick fringe-growth of the flat


    20. Davidson pawing at her breast and rubbing her thighs

    21. After each pawing, I glanced over at the


    22. Ingwe snarled, pawing at the reeds


    23. was referring to something I said, but he quickly lifted his huge body off of the stairs and began pawing at his own ass, searching for something he couldn’t easily find


    24. The cat rolled over onto its back, pawing at the side of the chair and Tam’s arm


    25. He sat up with a groan, clutching and pawing at burning eyes while muttering sleepily, "Damn sun's tryin' ta kill me


    26. He nickered, pawing his hoof on the straw-covered, mud-packed floor below and moved his head to greet her


    27. ” When Hush shifted in her lap, pawing her hand closer to the broad expanse of chest, Norah obliged, wringing a contented sigh from his pooch


    28. Patches is on the ground, pawing at his lap


    29. He wasn’t pawing at her and he didn’t have his 189


    30. screen whilst on the next couch his boss was pawing away at his wife

    31. Adele was jolted to the grass by a crowd of zombies pawing her


    32. After pawing through socks, underwear and pantyhose, he stepped to the small walk-in closet and pulled the string to a single light bulb jutting from the ceiling


    33. He bit at the glass and returned to pawing


    34. Jordon and the dog raced across the cavern to the main exit on the opposite side where he wheeled about and, with the dog roaring and pawing the ground, he shouted


    35. The stallion reared, front legs violently pawing the air, and when it came down, Ravan decapitated one of the men


    36. I wondered where on earth I was, but top priority was stopping the praver who was pawing me as if he expected to find weapons hidden in my thin t-shirt and shorts


    37. After fifteen minutes of pawing with increasing despair through the grotesquerie, he was forced to choose a plain pink shirt with no sleeves, and a pair of light blue pants with a red string around the waist that served as a belt


    38. strong connection in its head between the pawing


    39. of food is not because of the action of pawing


    40. The handsome brute, just subdued, stood arching his neck under the tightly drawn rein, with one foot impatiently pawing the ground, and ears pricked up as if listening for the voice that had mastered him

    41. BLOOM: (Pawing the heather abjectly) O, I have been a perfect pig


    42. While his horses were impatiently pawing the ground,—held in by the coachman, who had been seated a quarter of an hour on his box,—the elegant phaeton with which we are familiar rapidly turned the angle of the entrance-gate, and cast out on the doorsteps M


    43. There stood the most welcome sight in the world: his hunter, Griff, saddled and pawing the ground, with


    44. Douglas and Lambert were pawing along the floor, trying to reach their guns


    45. When this was over, how to make my retreat was my concern; for, though I had been so extremely pleased with the difficult between this warm broadside, poured so briskly into me, and the tiresome pawing and toying to which I had owed the unappeased flames that had driven me into this step, now I was cooler, I began to apprehend the danger of contracting an acquaintance with this, however agreeable stranger; who, on his side, spoke of passing the evening with me and continuing our intimacy, with an air of determination that made me afraid of its being not so easy to get away from him as I could wish


    46. The guy went over backward and laid out full length, but to his credit he knew he was dead if he stayed there, so he skidded once, and then crabbed and scrambled away, all elbows and knees, and he got himself upright, shrugging and blinking and pawing the air


    47. One of them stopped, pawing at his eyes, but the other kept coming


    48. He reined in so suddenly the horse went back on its haunches, pawing the air


    49. Then, very gradually, part by part, a pale dangling individual stepped out of the wreck, pawing tentatively at the ground with a large uncertain dancing shoe


    50. But Bilbo simply could not think of any question with that nasty wet cold thing sitting next to him, and pawing and poking him











    1. It paws at her, trying to suckle at her breast


    2. Slowly, a hesitant furry face and two paws appeared from under the desk


    3. Gaudy green armchairs with gilded wooden armrests shaped into lions’ paws line the walls


    4. The pad of these paws on frost grass verges,


    5. She went into a killing frenzy; ripping paws, legs, throats, severing heads; her rage allowed her to destroy them all


    6. Maska lay down in front of her and put his head on his paws


    7. Terry managed to stammer out a high-pitched "Course not", and then he just stood there frozen with embarrassment as the dog played keepie-uppie with all four paws


    8. Their jowls retracted displaying a row of razor sharp teeth; they took a step and their claws suddenly appeared over their paws


    9. Their cat-like faces had two huge fangs at the mouth and their paws held claws that could rip an enemy to shreds in seconds; they were ferocious predators


    10. embarrassment as the dog played keepie-uppie with all four paws

    11. The dog jumped shoving its front paws into Roman’s


    12. And with that, the Terrifying and Terrible Lord Ursa tried to grab the nearby pocket knife; however it was too heavy, and he had no fingers to use to hold onto them, only stuffed paws


    13. eye, others had torn paws and chewed necks, and many had flies pestering open


    14. He lay on the floor with his pink paws


    15. Penelope studied its movements, watching its large paws and being careful to not let her eyes stray from those monstrous teeth either


    16. “She is staring at me, with that little rock between her paws! She looks down at the stone then back up at me---and I swear it all took like the blink of an eye


    17. They placed their paws on the Elf's chest and raised their muzzles to either side of her head close to her ears


    18. Mim and Yula moved as close as they could to the Elf's still outstretched hand, then each placed one of their paws onto that hand


    19. The sound of sharp, regular breaths and a drumming of paws had indicated their presence


    20. Danny rose up onto his hind legs and put his paws upon the tree near to the burrow in which they had slept

    21. The golden-maned cat had it claws out and was taking swipes at the air with its fist-sized paws


    22. ‘So he did, so he did,’ said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws


    23. topiary shears in their paws, carving cockerels


    24. shaken otters held paws above the bridge of his


    25. Cats use paws as hands


    26. The vet explained that the cat had broken front paws, which had been healing incorrectly for at least two weeks, one so crookedly it looked as if it would require amputation


    27. Alfre, the Samoyed-retriever mix who’d come to us as an abandoned puppy with a shrunken tummy and bloody paws, formed a close bond with Autumn, and the two often napped together, the furry white dog curled around the full-figured tabby


    28. We went around to all the local shelters and carefully read the posted information cards and greeted the friendly paws reaching through the cages


    29. The cautious kitten was a sleek black with a white throat, chest, and belly, and four little white paws, like the rain boots in my closet


    30. One day, as I talked to him, he put his paws on my chest, looked me in the eyes, and twisted his neck as if to say, Stroke my head

    31. I swear Prinz would leap up in the air with all four paws stretched wide, his mouth fully open, and spit an abbreviated mewrt that mimicked Dad’s “boo!”


    32. As rewrite assistant, his paws played across my computer keys


    33. The rat tried to fight back, hissing in return and trying to bite the cat's paws, but the cat was too fast, too strong


    34. It was light brown coat was muddy around the paws and flank but the rest was spotless


    35. No animal she had ever seen had paws that large


    36. Four velvet paws, joined like the fingers of a monkey's hand, showed themselves immediately near the orifice


    37. The beast surged over the crown of the hill, snow churning beneath its paws


    38. Keeping its rear end on the top rail, Chuckles slid its front paws down the side slats of the cot, balancing precariously until its front paws were on the mattress and it could drop down without frightening the occupant


    39. Buddha though had pressed his paws against his ears and was rolling his eyes


    40. Paws dabbed about, thick claws tearing pieces from the jamb as they strained against the failing hook

    41. On the far side of the shack a cat sat licking its paws, cleaning the fur along the sides of its neck and head


    42. Their heads were resting between their paws, their eyes closed


    43. Wings and paws were shaken


    44. A couple of papers rested beneath Trog’s paws


    45. He collected as much grass as his little paws could hold


    46. He buried his face in his paws, biting his lips


    47. Holding the fish between his paws, he bit into its back, killing it with a swift twist of his head


    48. Digging his paws deep into the cold liquid, he fought against the water, trying to gain speed, but with each passing moment his lungs became tauter and heavier, his throat bulging with the effort of not breathing


    49. Mine was large enough to look me right in the eyes when standing on its hind legs with its huge paws on my chest


    50. He smiled at her, holding out his paws to her













































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    Synonyms for "paw"

    paw hand manus mitt pad claw talon hoof scrape smite hit clutch rake scratch maul fondle man-handle molest attack seize

    "paw" definitions

    a clawed foot of an animal especially a quadruped


    the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb


    scrape with the paws


    touch clumsily