noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
heavy
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A fine sheen of sweat glazed his heavy , quivering jowls .
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His cheeks were sunken and the onset of years had given him heavy jowls .
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Yet her face with its heavy jowls , hangover eyes and early-morning stubble was entirely that of a man.
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The face was gross and swollen, heavy jowls covered by thick black sideburns.
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The hair faded. Heavy jowls formed and blue, piercing eyes glittered beneath a great beetling brow.
■ VERB
cheek
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Lurid rock videos cheek-by-jowl with classic films.
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Fifty thousand dancing girls lying cheek to jowl in a battered straw suitcase.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cheek by jowl (with sb/sth)
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The farmers live cheek by jowl with the pits that are shutting down.
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The guests, packed cheek by jowl, parted as he entered, and suddenly she knew the reason for the party.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A fine sheen of sweat glazed his heavy, quivering jowls.
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Dark-haired, he had shrewd beady eyes, was clean-shaven and showed the beginnings of a jowl .
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Fifty thousand dancing girls lying cheek to jowl in a battered straw suitcase.
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His long face, punctuated by a pencil mustache, is a place of jowls, creases and inflammation.
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The guests, packed cheek by jowl , parted as he entered, and suddenly she knew the reason for the party.
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The only special feature for him was the jowl fixture inside his mouth, a wire frame with two plastic pieces attached.