jowl
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I carefully removed the hook from the fish’s jowl and gently let it slip back through my fingers out into the river.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
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
"We live teeth by jowl with a much bigger country that speaks a language that is a global language," he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2023
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
Here were no gold-plated buildings or great cathedrals, only shabby rows of houses, cheek by jowl.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
Vocabulary lists containing jowl
The Odyssey
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The Grapes of Wrath
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