"But too much jawing can be a distraction, and our players need to know that."

The jawing was just their way of spurring each other on to greater heights.

But the jawing didn't just stop after the game, when teams usually offer some sensible soundbites of respect for their opponents.

Let me do all the jawing.

Before Miami's Lewis left the field, he did some animated jawing at the dejected quarterback.

"Doubtless gets the servant a fine jawing."

When money is to be paid and received, there is always some vehement jawing and gesticulating about it.

In the years since the Calamity the Family had learned that aimless jawing had to be carefully controlled.

I suppose I did all the jawing--I usually do.

It seems to me, sweetie, that it's time now to cut out the jawing and to ignite him with that magic little tinderbox of yours.

They played fast and loose and arrogantly, which led to some jawing and some shoving in the second quarter.

There is the ritual ordering of drink and food, the shoulder-to-shoulder standing about, the huddled sitting, the swap of gossip, the jawing of news.

Frank Rich's Nov. 10 column, "War Is Heck," perfectly captures the political jawing that passes for public policy nowadays.

On the sidelines, players halted their jawing, or raised themselves after being hunched over from fatigue, when Tony Meola was about to attempt to kick a field goal.

Two distinct sounds emerged from the Lahaina Civic Center: rubber squeaking against hardwood and Gary Payton's incessant jawing.

The nurse, a sprightly, middle-aged woman, full of nervous good humour, was set for half an hour's good jawing before she would think of showing them the girl, but John cut her short.

I told Susan so, but she said to stop my jawing and go to sleep before the water got cold, or she'd leave me to see if rhyming would cure toothache, and she hoped it would be a lesson to me."

Now, with "Moscow: Cherry Tree Towers" still playing this weekend, the real jawing begins, as the 15-year-old Bard Music Festival, the heart, or at least the mouth, of Bard Summerscape, examines Shostakovich in a larger compositional, social and political context.

There was so much talking between Ray Mercer and Jesse Ferguson in their Feb. 6 bout at Madison Square Garden that George Foreman, Larry Merchant and Jim Lampley, the HBO announcers, began to joke about the jawing.

I moved my jaw with the idea of saying something.

I put my hands up and hit her on the jaw.

Even her head seemed to get in the way of his jaw.

John looked up and his jaw almost hit the floor.

Something about the eyes and the line of the jaw.

His jaw worked several times before any sound came out.

His jaw was set, and for a moment I thought he would not answer me at all.

You'd have to break his jaw to get it down him.

All but the lower jaw of the head was gone.

You let him have it in the jaw with your right.

Problems or pain when you try to open your jaw.

The outside jaw also goes all the way to the floor - or nearly so.

He could see the effort she was making to keep her jaw in place.

At the moment, they were standing over what might have been a man's jaw.

Go ahead and pick your jaw up off the floor.

The science officer's jaw was set, as though he had just made a major decision.

He started to say something, and then his jaw stopped moving at all.

The words came in a dead voice through a closed jaw.

His jaw started to work again and he stopped it.

She could not see the eye, just the lower jaw.

He's got a huge lower jaw, and he almost never says anything.

She kept walking, the cut of her jaw held high.

Then he was hit again under the jaw, and fell to the ground.

The woman's jaw moved as if in search of where all her words went.

Your jaw movement may be limited for at least a month.

Bryant then trots over to Nash and they jaw at each other.

"My threads, how I jaw."

Jaw an ands, eatin and oldin.