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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of caw.

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Examples

  • “Hello, she says,” a sharp, high-pitched voice cawed from down the corridor, laughing and mimicking.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • “Hello, she says,” a sharp, high-pitched voice cawed from down the corridor, laughing and mimicking.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • “Hello, she says,” a sharp, high-pitched voice cawed from down the corridor, laughing and mimicking.

    Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

  • The Great Blue cawed hoarsely and stood on one leg in a fishing meditation.

    Brenda Peterson: Why I Still Want To Be Left Behind Brenda Peterson 2011

  • “Oh really?” or “Oh I know!” they cawed from time to time.

    A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

  • A crow cawed overhead, casting a small shadow on the ground before screeching to a stop in a tree near them.

    Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010

  • Somewhere, high in the trees, two cranky crows cawed and below them Salmon Creek glistened in the late afternoon sun.

    POSEY'S POND 2010

  • From somewhere in the surrounding trees a trixie cawed on its nightly quest to kill and eat as many moonbats as possible.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010

  • Behind her, crickets scraped and frogs croaked; a bird cawed.

    Crusade Nancy Holder 2010

  • “Hey, Sydelle!” she cawed, shoving her sister aside.

    The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010

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