chin
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The mask extends from the hairline to underneath the chin.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
Dressed in a dark suit and white shirt with no tie, the former president sat with his chin resting on his hands as proceedings opened.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Two smaller scars on his chin and a missing tooth are other visible marks of his ordeal.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Every portrait depicts a pale woman with a sharp nose, bow lips, slightly receding chin, and dark eyes with a pink lacrimal caruncle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
“I remember that one now,” he said with a smirk, angling his chin up.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Beards can help cover up bad skin, weak chins, too-long or too-short upper lips, facial tattoos and more.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
A few of the other women prisoners walked out into the yard, their chins nearly touching their chests, their shaved heads sunk low on bowed necks.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
"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
But it was either them or the blessedly chinned Bruce Forsyth.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2010
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
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
A staffer found him in the baggage room, chinning with the porters.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Englishmen had also been lifting weights and chinning themselves for years.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
