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
Fans pack in cheek by jowl well before the first pitch and long after the final out.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2022
He was also in a perpetual state of disgust: The orders coming down, as officers worked cheek by jowl with thousands of National Guard members on the premises, seemed chaotic.
From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022
Along the span were shops and stalls of every sort; weavers and lacemakers displayed their wares cheek by jowl with glassblowers, candle- makers, and fishwives selling eels and oysters.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
