How do you use Pawed in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Pawed meaning
simple past and past participle of paw
Using Pawed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of paw
- In the example corpus, pawed often appears in combinations such as: pawed at, and pawed.
Context around Pawed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pawed
- In this selection, "pawed" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, playfully, stopper, red, furiously, away and literally stand out and add context to how "pawed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and their pawed pals under and caught red pawed literally after. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pawed" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pawed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Her dog leaped on the bed looking for the toy and pawed at her. (14 words)
The Borough Hotel has been welcoming punters and their pawed pals under its current owners for 40 years. (18 words)
Ice stayed calm, cool and collected while the bear pawed at the windshield, trying to get to the dog and its owner. (22 words)
He said he had seen incidents where it has been a dog that has been loose in the car and has distracted the driver or pawed at the drivers arms that had caused crashes. (34 words)
The 11-week old Turkish Boz Shepherd didn’t look menacing on a cold day last month when he playfully pawed at a bone his sibling was chewing near the livestock pens. (32 words)
Joel leaped high and eagerly when the officers opened the back doors of the truck, and pawed furiously at the unloaded boxes to try to move the bananas aside, police recounted. (31 words)
Example sentences (10)
He said he had seen incidents where it has been a dog that has been loose in the car and has distracted the driver or pawed at the drivers arms that had caused crashes.
Joel leaped high and eagerly when the officers opened the back doors of the truck, and pawed furiously at the unloaded boxes to try to move the bananas aside, police recounted.
The 11-week old Turkish Boz Shepherd didn’t look menacing on a cold day last month when he playfully pawed at a bone his sibling was chewing near the livestock pens.
The Fulham shot-stopper pawed away a well-struck Marcus Rashford free-kick from distance as United started brightly, only to then be caught cold from a 19th-minute set-piece.
This cheeky cat was caught red-pawed (literally) after it had waded through what appeared to be tomato sauce and buried its face in the dish.
The Borough Hotel has been welcoming punters and their pawed pals under its current owners for 40 years.
Her dog leaped on the bed looking for the toy and pawed at her.
Two-year-old Charlie Roo pawed-up the ‘Purrfectly Imperfect’ award at Cat Protection’s 2020 Alternative Cat Awards, held online for the first time due to coronavirus.
Ice stayed calm, cool and collected while the bear pawed at the windshield, trying to get to the dog and its owner.
She says he groped and pawed female staff members, stared at their breasts, and dangled job prospects to wine and dine women.
Common combinations with pawed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pawed at 4×
- and pawed 3×