chin
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Then there is that face: stoic, chin up, lips closed, eyes focused.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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
Not long after, Gray, in a plaid mini, is also posing at the photographers’ request, switching effortlessly between signature Gen Z stances, chin resting atop a bent hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
“You saved one,” I said, motioning with my chin to where Agent Chris was getting helped to her feet.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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
"I love your chins, dad," Dani responded, sweetly.
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
Violet doesn’t care what color it is, so long as under their chins that avenue of no-question-about-it satin cools their lava forever.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
"Taking interim fights, you can get chinned by anyone."
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
A guy in Philadelphia chinned 24 pullups in a row at age 90, which is roughly 23 more than I’ve done in my entire life.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2019
Double chinned faces are usually categorized under the round and wide face.
From Forbes ● Sep. 28, 2014
His last ride, he got chinned on the line.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010
Harry took a running jump, caught a limb, and chinned himself.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Outside is a chinning bar dating to Tolstoy’s day.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2016
Franklin Roosevelt almost certainly would have been on the world telephones, chinning with "Uncle Joe" and talking guardedly with that mild, new quality at No. 10 Downing Street, Clement Attlee.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In Higashi Village, Japan, the women's youth corps put 50 youths through a husband qualification test which included a marathon run, a rice-bag-carrying race, chinning the bar and plowing, flunked all 50.
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
