chin

Example Sentences

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If you’re lucky, not too much of the medicine will wind up dripping down your adorable creature’s chin.

From Slate • May 17, 2026

The fighter, who was working in recruitment a decade ago, showed extraordinary chin and heart.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Between “Beef” and a few other TV shows and movies, the marriage industrial complex is really taking it on the chin this spring.

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

He is described as a man who had “poked his chin up sideways, carrying his nose with that aforesaid appearance of ‘sniff,’ as though despising an egg which he knew he could not digest.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

My voice was quivering and my chin unsteady.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff