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
  • Shocking self-indulgence sits cheek by jowl with self-denial.
    — Tobi Haslett, Harper's Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Wobbly tête de veau, cheek by jowl by tongue, served with an equally wobbly sauce ravigote.
    — Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Mormons don’t like their temples living cheek by jowl with other buildings.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Old lighting rigs sit cheek by jowl with model spacecraft, dinosaur skulls next to lunar atlases.
    — Andrew Dickson, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Hundreds of millions of poor people live cheek by jowl, easy targets for a highly contagious virus.
    — New York Times, 1 May 2021
  • The soundstages will sit cheek by jowl with public spaces and the idea is to pull back the curtain and make people feel part of the action.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Succulents tend to come packed into adorable little dishes, all crammed together cheek by jowl.
    — Molly Marquand, Good Housekeeping, 9 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • Forget about socialites eating cheek by jowl with secretaries, bank heads alongside barbers.
    — New York Times, 25 Feb. 2020
  • But though Esplanade and Aventura sit cheek by jowl, the two have not always been neighborly.
    — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The curators bring nature inside, namely with many displays of crystals and other minerals, often cheek by jowl with the artworks.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • The two communities lived cheek by jowl in many American cities, where immigrants of different sorts ended up in the same neighborhoods.
    — Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Now tourist arrivals are increasing every year; resorts and luxury villa complexes sit cheek by jowl along the three-mile crescent of Grace Bay.
    — Henry Wismayer, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The real potential for a next-level night on the town comes with the synergy between Hind’s food-and-booze options that’s cheek by jowl with Irie’s food-and-weed lounge concept.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
  • 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

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