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
A recent selection — cheeks, jowl, chin, snout, tongue, spare rib, kidney — read like an anatomy chart.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
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
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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The Grapes of Wrath
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