cheek by jowl
Example Sentences
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Juxtapositions between high and low, between the virtuous and the criminal, and these things existed cheek by jowl.
From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025
Ruoff’s team has already used it to make diamond films composed of thousands of tiny crystals packed cheek by jowl.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2024
And instead of being crammed cheek by jowl in the press section, reporters, along with the justices’ law clerks, are spaced throughout the otherwise-empty chamber.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022
Forget about socialites eating cheek by jowl with secretaries, bank heads alongside barbers.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2020
Factories making cameras, computers, watches, umbrellas, and T-shirts stand cheek by jowl with densely packed blocks of apartment buildings and fields of banana and mango trees, sugarcane, papaya, and pineapple destined for the export market.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
