muttonchops

Example Sentences

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Asked to elaborate on his character’s gold tooth and muttonchops that made some fans apoplectic—No, they cried, Heathcliff must be hotter!—his patience seems tested.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

Others turn side to side, offering profile views: muttonchops, stripes.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2019

Meanwhile, the whole office has gone hairy, with more mustaches, muttonchops, and full beards than Pete could shake a pale, hairless jowl at.

From Time • Apr. 8, 2013

He covered his face unevenly with shaving cream and carefully sculptured his prominent sideburns — tapered muttonchops that stretch to the corners of his mouth like a pair of giant peninsulas.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2012

Then the barber used some of them pointy killing-looking scissors to cut the cap’n’s chin and muttonchops down afore he soaped ’em up and shaved ’em off.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis