cheek-by-jowl
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
35
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Obscure manuscripts and well-known texts reside cheek-by-jowl; so too, polished literary works and oral narratives."
- "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.""
- "[H]e [David Free] had made his peace with the idea of spending half-term cheek-by-jowl on a cruise ship with the world's biggest Titanic enthusiasts."
- "LNER express trains old and new stand cheek-by-jowl at King's Cross during the evening rush hour on October 14."
Inflected Forms
more cheek-by-jowl (comparative)
most cheek-by-jowl (superlative)