jowl

Example Sentences

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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

He was also in a perpetual state of disgust: The orders coming down, as officers worked cheek by jowl with thousands of National Guard members on the premises, seemed chaotic.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022

I'd be in the big state hospital in the country, cheek by jowl to this private place.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath