noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
high
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Despite the difference in their ages, the two women were strikingly alike, with small smooth-skinned faces and high cheekbones .
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He has high cheekbones , and a longish nose.
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Her skin was cleft with deep lines running from the jaw to the high jutting cheekbones .
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I would recognize the slanted eyes, the dark glistening skin and the high cheekbones anywhere.
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Her eyes were dark and luminous and her faintly olive skin normally carried a dusting of colour, high on her cheekbones .
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Their narrow eyes and high cheekbones , their swarthy skins seem even more foreign in the firelight.
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The noble forehead, glittering blue eyes, high cheekbones and well-formed beard suggested the conquistador Cortes.
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Her eyes gleamed above those remarkable high cheekbones of hers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A muscle near her right cheekbone fluttered at erratic intervals, and the nail polish was chipped.
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He is tall and dark, his brown eyes intense above his high cheekbones.
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Her eyes gleamed above those remarkable high cheekbones of hers.
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Her skin was cleft with deep lines running from the jaw to the high jutting cheekbones.
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His Navajo cheekbones dazzled; his classic Romanesque nose left one breathless.
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I remember, too, her strangely spaced cheekbones and severely cut hair.
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Looking down at the curve of her cheekbone , still wet with tears, he suddenly wanted her, quite overwhelmingly.
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One of her cheekbones had been crushed and the doctors were trying to reconstruct it.