chin
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Kitten Seer hopped onto my chest, stretching her little black fluffy limbs while I scratched her chin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Then there is that face: stoic, chin up, lips closed, eyes focused.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Zooming through the air in a flying Sky-Sled, he wedges his face into a triple chin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 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
Wolf broke into a big wolf smile, wagging his hindquarters and nibble-greeting Torak rapturously under the chin.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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
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
And they could sit there all stiff with their chins down in their chests and their arms folded tightly and their legs clamped together.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
"Taking interim fights, you can get chinned by anyone."
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
On a recent afternoon he chinned himself from a high bar and did an assortment of lifts with 30-pound weights on cables.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2016
Double chinned faces are usually categorized under the round and wide face.
From Forbes ● Sep. 28, 2014
And she's come back to her best today and chinned us on the line.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 21, 2012
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
A staffer found him in the baggage room, chinning with the porters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jobs as a mechanic in Vermont and Detroit and a brief love affair with his ex-secretary in Washington soon had him chinning himself on his own self-confidence.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
