jowl
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I carefully removed the hook from the fish’s jowl and gently let it slip back through my fingers out into the river.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
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
Fans pack in cheek by jowl well before the first pitch and long after the final out.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2022
A man with a smooth prizefighter’s jowl in which the mouth was only a slit paused opposite him, balancing his truncheon meditatively between thumb and forefinger.
From "1984" by George Orwell
Vocabulary lists containing jowl
The Odyssey
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"To Build a Fire" by Jack London
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The Grapes of Wrath
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