jowl

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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

We found his block, low houses cheek by jowl.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

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

The cockpit was oppressively cramped, forcing pilot and copilot to live cheek by jowl for missions as long as sixteen hours.

From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand