cheek by jowl
Example Sentences
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Staff and residents sat cheek by jowl chatting to each other.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 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
Commuters and touring passengers with cameras around their necks sometimes sat cheek by jowl, taking in the sights of flashing neon billboards, junk boats and shard-like skyscrapers rising toward Victoria Peak.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022
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
La Salle passed through the area where De Soto had found cities cheek by jowl.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
