chin
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At conferences, he was known to balance heavy objects, like chairs, on his chin.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Dressed in a dark suit and white shirt with no tie, the former president sat with his chin resting on his hands as proceedings opened.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
The glow of her computer occasionally caught her sharp cheekbones and bounced off her chin, highlighting the thin tattooed line that bisects it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
He proved he can take a punch - there was no single blow that suddenly revealed a fragile chin.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
And, with a clefted chin and strong cheekbones—with strawberry hair and his right hand on Mrs. Wyndham’s shoulder—Barry Wyndham.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Beards can help cover up bad skin, weak chins, too-long or too-short upper lips, facial tattoos and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
I yanked at the sprinkler, and each of us held on to one side of it while it blasted away at our stomachs and chins.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
"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
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
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
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
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
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
The Englishmen had also been lifting weights and chinning themselves for years.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
