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How to use jowl in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun, verb

Jowl means the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible. Example: “Ernest Cramer, the mayoral contender, was a chunky man with a waxish grin and heavy jowls.”

More sentences with jowl

  • Ernest Cramer, the mayoral contender, was a chunky man with a waxish grin and heavy jowls.2018, Matt Braun, Shadow Killers and Deathwalk: Two Classic Westerns, →ISBN. From the entry waxish
  • For instance, after Steed says she and a Russian spy will be working “cheek to jowl,” Mrs.2015, Tom Soter, Investigating Couples, page 89. From the entry cheek to jowl
  • Peel, with a twinkle in her eye, responds that “his cheek will come nowhere near my jowl.”2015, Tom Soter, Investigating Couples, page 89. From the entry cheek to jowl
  • Feeling the crush of gravity again, the insistent tug on limbs and jowls and eyelashes.2004, Wil McCarthy, Lost in Transmission (Sci-Fi), Random House, →ISBN. From the entry squozen
  • Fiction will be much the better for standing cheek by jowl with poetry and philosophy.1929 September, Virginia Woolf, chapter VI, in A Room of One’s Own, uniform edition, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth…. From the entry cheek by jowl
  • He had the same pile of curly hair, but he was clean-shaven with a heavy, obstinate jowl.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry obstinate
  • It was sprinkled with houses, some dilapidated, some newer, some cheek by jowl, others sitting on wide parcels of land.2014, Marlo Thomas, It Ain’t Over … till It’s Over: Reinventing Your Life—and Realizing Your Dreams—Anytime, at Any Age, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry cheek by jowl
  • Up until now, I was too polite to say anything, but those saggy jowls are so unattractive in profile.”2010, Lisa Rinna, chapter 35, in Starlit, Gallery Books, page 240. From the entry chin job
  • Would Minister Jowell propose that, for balance, magazines offer a smattering of models with spots, crow’s feet or jowls?2000 April 12, Meghan Cox Gurdon, “Teen mags are only skin deep: Adolescent girls don’t need the state to censor images of lithe models”…. From the entry plumpitude
  • Despite their avowals of an anarchocommunist ideology, Nietzscheans like Emma Goldman remained cheek to jowl in spirit with individualists.1995, Murray Bookchin, Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism, AK Press, →ISBN, page 11. From the entry anarchocommunist
  • Her lover, cheek by jowl with Maria, at the head of that army of Portuguese ragamuffins, was not a pretty sight.1909, Jack London, chapter 35, in Martin Eden. From the entry not a pretty sight
  • He thought she looked like some coiffured dog, with her foreign hair and the bright red beads at her neck, her jowls hanging down.2021, Harriet Kline ·, This Shining Life. From the entry coiffured
  • The next time they darted in at the auroch, Marra nipped at its ear and Pell actually took its jowls in his mouth.2012, Dorothy Hearst, Secrets of the Wolves, page 286. From the entry auroch
  • Mongrels all ribcage and droopy jowl barked at his passage; but no one stirred inside the low huts among plots of quequisque and plantain.1996, Liston Pope, Living Like the Saints: A Novel of Nicaragua, page 188. From the entry quequisque

Meaning of jowl

  1. noun The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
  2. verb To throw, dash, or knock.
  3. noun A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).

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Questions about jowl in a sentence

How do you use jowl in a sentence?
Jowl is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Ernest Cramer, the mayoral contender, was a chunky man with a waxish grin and heavy jowls.”
What is a short sentence with jowl?
“Feeling the crush of gravity again, the insistent tug on limbs and jowls and eyelashes.”
What does jowl mean?
Jowl means the jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jowl (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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