chin
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Kitten Seer hopped onto my chest, stretching her little black fluffy limbs while I scratched her chin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Her son made it look so natural, quickly learning to catch the hacky sack between his chin and pop it onto the back of his leg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
If you’re lucky, not too much of the medicine will wind up dripping down your adorable creature’s chin.
From Slate ● May 17, 2026
The visual alteration was not brilliant – the influencer has to cover the bottom of his chin to hide his beard – but it was clearly enough to fool the retired teacher.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Anna May feigned offense, then tipped up her chin and said with exaggerated loftiness, “And actually, I was one of just three lantern holders.”
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
While Lord Wynstowe fusses around measuring chins and noses, Charlie and Alice are concerned with the grosser features of the human body.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Taking to the stage to hand out the prize for best reality show, Danny quipped: "Two Danny Dyers at the Baftas. Do you know how people tell us apart? My chins."
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
That might be giving too much credit to one player’s influence after nearly 50 years of clean chins, but come opening day, the smart money will be on Williams wearing a beard.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025
Chinstrap penguins get their name from the thin black line under their chins, which looks like a strap holding on a black hat or helmet.
From NewsForKids.net ● Dec. 12, 2023
His valet fed him one last spoonful of supper and dabbed his chins.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
"Taking interim fights, you can get chinned by anyone."
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
The change-averse Pittsburgh ownership stuck with the chinned one, and he eventually delivered the franchise’s fifth, and his first, Super Bowl title in 2005 in his 14th season.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2016
On a recent afternoon he chinned himself from a high bar and did an assortment of lifts with 30-pound weights on cables.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2016
Double chinned faces are usually categorized under the round and wide face.
From Forbes ● Sep. 28, 2014
I sprang up, grabbed it, and then, in a fumbling and perhaps grotesque offering to Phineas, I chinned myself.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Outside is a chinning bar dating to Tolstoy’s day.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2016
Four times a week he dons a pair of steel and foam-rubber Gravity Boots that each weigh three pounds and dangles from his heels from a chinning bar for five minutes.
From Time Magazine Archive
CBS Boss Bill Paley and his two new vice presidents, Edward R. Murrow and Davidson Taylor, conceived Operation Crossroads while chinning about their European wartime experiences.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the morning "Ike" Eisenhower stood at an English quayside, chinning in his friendly Kansas way with embarking Tommies.
From Time Magazine Archive
I remember chinning myself on the top of a fence to see one such comedy show filled with gallows humor.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
