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Example sentences for "jowl"

Lexicographically close words:
joven; jovial; joviality; jovially; jowari; jowled; jowls; joy; joyance; joye
  1. Spotted Dog had lost part of an ear, and the same knife had seamed his flabby jowl into the likeness of a bloodhound's cheek; his deeply-pitted visage completed the ensemble, and no other name would have fitted him as well.

  2. You saw gentlemen and celebrities cheek by jowl with gallows-birds.

  3. A brow the color of fresh butter and florid cheeks like a monk's jowl seemed scarcely big enough to contain his exuberant jubilation.

  4. But all that is going to change, and when you see me cheek by jowl with the best of them you will salaam and ask the bidding of Barclay Sahib.

  5. One of them is Raffles, who is talking to a large man with the brow of a demi-god and the eyes and jowl of a degenerate bulldog.

  6. His fine forehead was a tangle of livid cords; his baggy jowl filled out like a balloon.

  7. And there sat Maguire bolt upright, but for the jowl upon his shirt-front, while the sequins twinkled in a regular rise and fall upon the reclining form of the lady in the fanciful chair.

  8. They were no doubt sitting cheek-by-jowl when pussy made the spring.

  9. Then she would sit and sleep cheek by jowl with him for hours.

  10. Behrman, easing his neck and jowl in his limp collar.

  11. His smooth-shaven jowl stood out big and tremulous on either side of his face; the roll of fat on the nape of his neck, sprinkled with sparse, stiff hairs, bulged out with greater prominence.

  12. He had breadth and depth of forehead and a jowl that lent itself to smiles as well as sternness, and a throat that expressed manly determination in every molded line.

  13. The man ceased gesticulating to wipe sweat from his stubbly jowl with the end of a Punjabi headdress.

  14. Grim and strong his jowl was, like the Sleeper's, and the dark hair three days old on it softened nothing of its lines.

  15. How can a man with hoop-like collar, starched to board-like texture, cutting his jowl and sawing each side of his neck, be free?

  16. Warming them over the fire until the oil exuded, she would apply them to the hairy jowl of the girl, and anon to her furry forehead and cheeks.

  17. Even Ruth was hurt, for she had some regard for appearances, and her lover, cheek by jowl with Maria, at the head of that army of Portuguese ragamuffins, was not a pretty sight.

  18. Consider that Plato is there cheek by jowl with Aristotle; and Shakespeare with Marlowe.

  19. He strained and tugged at the grip, trying to twist his jowl in the slack of skin so as to reach a bite.

  20. And the next moment he was in Skipper's arms, jowl against cheek, and the tongue was again flashing out in all the articulateness possible for a creature denied speech.

  21. On a lawn at some distance from the house an incongruous collection of articles had been laid out: a picture by Rubens side by side with a trouser-press; a piece of Sevres cheek by jowl with a kitchen saucepan.

  22. To my surprise, for as all my attention had been for the Brook I had had none to spare for the field as a whole, I found myself cheek by jowl with Jodey.

  23. Oh dear, oh dear, then I should have to live cheek and jowl with perfection; it would be dreadful.

  24. Its head is short and thick, ears erect, legs very short, chine high and broad, and jowl wide, belly hanging very near to the ground.

  25. I like, too, the way the undertakers' shops of the humble and obscure carry on cheek by jowl with the familiar, homely, friendly things of life.

  26. Tell her," says Master William, "'tis a rare fine bit of mellow jowl as I be a sending she.

  27. Ah, a maid what can treat a prime home-cured jowl as yon did baint the sort for to mistress it over we, I'm thinking.

  28. Is the jowl hung up in its right place again, John?

  29. From a nearby café hurried the by-product with the vast jowl and baby complexion, bearing a glass full of a crimson fluid that suggested delightful possibilities.

  30. And for proof he seized the dish and buried his jowl in it.

  31. But since the hated Stanleys were cheek by jowl with the king, there could be nothing for Sir Watty but the other side.

  32. He had been long enough check by jowl with death to express no surprise.

  33. His great jaws were like the jowl of a mastiff.

  34. Though he showed against the linen wall as brawny and big of jowl as he had loomed up the night before, she found herself moved only to dislike.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jowl" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.