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jowl

noun as in jaw

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Stuff any animal cheek-to-jowl into overly crowded pens and the oceans will fight back with rampant disease.

A new dimension of social anxiety opened up last week, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention liberated the smiles, scowls and jowls of Americans with new guidance saying masks aren’t needed for those of us who are fully vaccinated.

They are places where people sit cheek to jowl, maybe sneezing, maybe coughing, maybe puking.

A lot of us who live in cities…we live cheek to jowl with the dead.

There are the best and the worst—all who can pay the price: the reformers cheek by jowl with the mayor and the Boss, by Jove!

This would be cheek-by-jowl with a bet that an heir would be born to one new-married pair before another pair.

The heavy jowl, the staring eye, and the blue-black moustache of the god made up a far-off resemblance to Mulvaney.

"I'll jowl your head for impudence," said Mrs. Morel, and she tied the strings of the black bonnet valiantly under her chin.

His agonised eyes, fear-stricken, glinted white in the moonlight, and there was foam on his jowl.

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On this page you'll find 7 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to jowl, such as: cheek, dewlap, and mandible.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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