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cheek by jowl

ADVERB
  1. in close proximity
    the houses were jumbled together cheek by jowl

How To Use cheek by jowl In A Sentence

  • The guests, packed cheek by jowl, parted as he entered.
  • It is cheek by jowl with the small boats that land the fish, and a stone's throw from the market where it is auctioned.
  • Invariably upon these humiliating occasions when Symes dined cheek by jowl with _hoi polloi_ who left their spoons in their cups and departed using a toothpick like a peavy, his thoughts turned to his coming triumph in Crowheart. The Lady Doc
  • The poor lived cheek by jowl in industrial mining towns in Victorian England.
  • So cheek by jowl we drool a common rheum that stultifies not one but all. Archive 2008-04-01
  • So even right here in the city you can find the most abominable poverty living almost cheek by jowl with these extraordinary lavish wasteful expenditures.
  • Behind the glitzy wodge of luxury apartments and refurbished houses, 35% of the site has been given to social housing: cheap flats for renting or joint ownership, sitting cheek by jowl with ritzier neighbours.
  • So cheek by jowl we drool a common rheum that stultifies not one but all. Ridicule
  • Incomprehensibly twisting lanes of swarming tenements stood cheek by jowl beside the villas of the rich. THEBES OF THE HUNDRED GATES
  • the houses were jumbled together cheek by jowl
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