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  • adjective Having sawteeth, or a similar form

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Examples

  • I sat in shock on the bed as she cried, and I loved herfiercelyas she stared and stared, and her hunger sucked me into her eyes and forced me to tears, made meweak—and I knew in that moment that love was anundertowdragging me far out to sea, and that if I didn't break free I would drown in this dream-turned-to-sheer-sawtoothed-hell.

    All Of My Monsters And Beautiful Women In Dreams Robert Crisman 2011

  • Such a plot line looks like a jagged series of sawtoothed peaks, where each individual peak is slightly higher than the one preceding it, until the climax is attained-the highest peak of all.

    Ten Minutes, That's It Benjamin Kral 2010

  • It was splintered into dozens of sawtoothed peaks, as if a range of mountains was rising above the curve of the planet.

    Tin 2010

  • Even the best scanners, pre-press Scitex quality, would show a more sawtoothed edge on all the letters.

    Obama's Birth Certificate: Yes, He's American 2009

  • Because all letterforms have curves the curvatures end up sawtoothed and so not the full percentage of the tint.

    Obama's Birth Certificate: Yes, He's American 2009

  • I mean, are people seriously shopping for cake while packing sawtoothed metal?

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jen 2009

  • They should be sawtoothed just as the background pattern is.

    Obama's Birth Certificate: Yes, He's American 2009

  • I mean, are people seriously shopping for cake while packing sawtoothed metal?

    Chuck Norris, Bakery Defender Jen 2009

  • The western end is formed by the Selwyn range of the Mackenzie Mountains and the sawtoothed igneous Ragged Range which both carry glaciers.

    Nahanni National Park Reserve, Canada 2008

  • These are brilliant and remarkable films, perhaps sharing a tendency to burn too brightly and to burn out sooner or later in the third act, but satisfying nevertheless on the strengths of their concepts, their sawtoothed satirical bite, and Klein's consistently dazzling eye for style.

    Archive 2008-03-09 2008

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