jawbreaking
- a word derived from jawbreaker.
Example Sentences
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The last is Comic Kaye at his best, as he rattles off the jawbreaking names of four dozen Russian composers without fluffing a "-sky."
From Time Magazine Archive
Heading and herding the group was one Alexander Kholodilin, bearer of a jawbreaking title: Chief of the Central Delegation of the Musical Institution of the Art Committee of the U.S.S.R.
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Doctors describe it, in a jawbreaking phrase, as "heavy nupercaine to produce saddle-block anesthesia."
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Some lenders fear that this process, known to economists by the jawbreaking name of "disintermediation," is already beginning.
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He heard it as a child in Australia and he thinks "the fun consists in the avoidance of all pronouns, which results in jawbreaking sentences."
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth
