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Wobbly tête de veau, cheek by jowl by tongue, served with an equally wobbly sauce ravigote.
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Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
There are cogent points about white supremacy and environmental destruction cheek by jowl with tangents on R. Kelly, ChatGPT, and the hair-root plexus.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
On a single wall of Florence’s Great Council Chamber, inside what is now the Palazzo Vecchio, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were set to work cheek by jowl, both painting battle scenes nearly 60 feet wide.
—Harry Seymour, airmail.news, 2 Nov. 2024
In the slums that crowd Kinshasa, the poor live cheek by jowl in cardboard huts near streams clogged with garbage that cut through mountains made of the stuff.
—Stuart A. Reid, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
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Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
There are cogent points about white supremacy and environmental destruction cheek by jowl with tangents on R. Kelly, ChatGPT, and the hair-root plexus.
—David Peisner, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2025
On a single wall of Florence’s Great Council Chamber, inside what is now the Palazzo Vecchio, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were set to work cheek by jowl, both painting battle scenes nearly 60 feet wide.
—Harry Seymour, airmail.news, 2 Nov. 2024
In the slums that crowd Kinshasa, the poor live cheek by jowl in cardboard huts near streams clogged with garbage that cut through mountains made of the stuff.
—Stuart A. Reid, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017
See All Example Sentences for cheek by jowl
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“Cheek by jowl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheek%20by%20jowl. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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