jowl
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Staff and residents sat cheek by jowl chatting to each other.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 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
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
Right now guanciale, a cured pork jowl traditionally used to make spaghetti alla carbonara, is flying off the shelves, as is an Italian orange soda called Chinotto.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 5, 2021
He looked down at me, panting, his face foolish, the saliva dripping from his tongue and his heavy jowl.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Vocabulary lists containing jowl
The Odyssey
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