How to Use cheek by jowl in a Sentence

cheek by jowl

adverb

• Fans pack in cheek by jowl well before the first pitch and long after the final out.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2022
• Makeshift fruit stands and pita carts are crammed together cheek by jowl on the roadside.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Dec. 2022
• Although the houses are cheek by jowl, the top floor has windows along two sides, bringing in plenty of light.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• Down the slope ahead of him, 500 black Drakensberger and mottled Nguni cows graze cheek by jowl.
  — David McKenzie, CNN, 6 Mar. 2020
• So the city’s population rose—a lot—leaving New Yorkers once more cheek by jowl.
  — The Economist, 20 Jan. 2018
• In its sleek, unfussy dining room, glamour and grit sat cheek by jowl, and going to the bathroom to powder your nose could mean one of two things.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2018
• This is what makes Alaska so Alaska – living cheek by jowl with nature and accepting it as the best way to live a full life.
  — Elise Patkotak, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 July 2017
• And writing is hard, but her genius is in this ability to write comedy cheek by jowl with tragedy.
  — Ellen Olivier, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2019
• But though Esplanade and Aventura sit cheek by jowl, the two have not always been neighborly.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
• Shocking self-indulgence sits cheek by jowl with self-denial.
  — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
• There is a new distinction among co-workers: Some came to know one another in shared offices, and formed their co-working styles cheek by jowl.
  — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 4 Jan. 2021
• Hundreds of millions of poor people live cheek by jowl, easy targets for a highly contagious virus.
  — New York Times, 1 May 2021
• But that is a challenging proposition in a place like New York City where 9 million people live cheek by jowl and rely on the subway and buses to get around.
  — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2020
• Old lighting rigs sit cheek by jowl with model spacecraft, dinosaur skulls next to lunar atlases.
  — Andrew Dickson, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
• All those centuries of intimacy, of living cheek by jowl, of building a shared culture, mattered not a jot.
  — Aatish Taseer Richard Mosse, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2022
• All over the barrio, new-wave coffee bars, bike-repair shops, and coworking spaces sit cheek by jowl with old-fashioned bakeries and vintage bars.
  — Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Jan. 2023
• Residents across the sprawling region have been living cheek by jowl with train tracks for generations, and many — rich and poor, Black and white, city and suburb — have had enough.
  — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• And in a place where everyone lives cheek by jowl with strangers, the essential mysteries of civilization seem to expand.
  — Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 18 Mar. 2018
• Instead, Frankfurter, his law clerks, and his secretary all worked together cheek by jowl in a center office.
  — Justin Driver, The Atlantic, 12 Aug. 2022
• Tens of thousands of strangers live cheek by jowl in normally uninhabitable places are hardly the safe havens that nurture a childhood.
  — Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
• Succulents tend to come packed into adorable little dishes, all crammed together cheek by jowl.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 16 Aug. 2022
• In London, the attacks are heavily concentrated in the east of the city, where young professionals and the deprived live cheek by jowl as patches of the area rapidly gentrify.
  — CNN, 29 Sep. 2017
• One block over, in an area where mobile homes sit cheek by jowl with modest bungalows, 28-year-old Martin Herrera was marveling that his trailer had survived unscathed.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2022
• Because camping was so popular, budget-minded vacationers were sometimes cheek by jowl with the down-and-out.
  — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2022
• And e-cargobikes are nimble, which will become increasingly important as more and more of us opt to live cheek by jowl in cities, where road space will always be in short supply.
  — Carlton Reid, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
• This meant that the sacred and the profane lived cheek by jowl—intimately connected and yet incommensurable with each other.
  — Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020
• Forget about socialites eating cheek by jowl with secretaries, bank heads alongside barbers.
  — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
• Up to 60% of the city's population live cheek by jowl in informal housing or slums, where there is little running water or sanitation, said Udas-Mankikar.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 11 June 2020
• Homeshares, meanwhile, have unlocked new neighborhoods in cities, allowing visitors to live amid the locals rather than cheek by jowl alongside tourists in hotels.
  — Mark Ellwood, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2019
• White Christians who spoke the same language, lived cheek by jowl, and mostly watched the same movies and TV shows were not supposed to be willing to kill each other because their ancestors had taken different sides in the Reformation.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024