• Cheek-by-jowl

    Full definition of cheek-by-jowl

    Adjective

    cheek-by-jowl

      • 1999 , Werner R. Loewenstein , The Touchstone of Life, The cells here take advantage of the cheek-by-jowl situations prevailing in tissues and make their Circus connections right at the points of contact.
      • 2013 , Daniel Gray , Stramash!: Tackling Scotland's Towns and Teams , Notorious among these was the 'Slap-Up', a cheek-by-jowl community of 2,000 people sited to the west of town.
      • 1991 , Robert C. Linthicum , City of God, City of Satan, As we drove at breakneck speed through the streets, I could not help but be overwhelmed by the gaunt and desperate faces of the people, the endless squatter settlements of cheek-by-jowl, single-room shacks surrounded by ankle-deep mud, and the occasional glimpses of the rich apparently oblivious to the suffering around them.

    Adverb

    cheek-by-jowl

      • 1995 , Brian M. Fagan , Snapshots of the Past , El-Amarna's crowded houses were separated not by wide streets, but by narrow, winding alleyways through piles of domestic garbage, in urban communities where everyone lived cheek-by-jowl.
      • 1998 , ‎Henry Moore, ‎David Mitchinson , Celebrating Moore, Allusions to primitive art, whether directly drawn from reference works or freely improvised in the artist's own dainty scenarios) nestle cheek-by-jowl with automatic doodles which in turn lead into approximations of highly abstract compositions.
      • 2004 , Howard Schwartz , Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism , Obscure manuscripts and well-known texts reside cheek-by-jowl; so too, polished literary works and oral narratives.
      • 2012 , Darrell Schweitzer , Discovering H.P. Lovecraft , In "The Dunwich Horror" the other-dimensional creatures are thwarted by the proper incantations, while witchcraft and the new Einsteinian universe appear cheek-by-jowl in "Dreams in the Witch House."
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