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cheek by jowl

ADVERB
  1. in close proximity
    the houses were jumbled together cheek by jowl

How To Use cheek by jowl In A Sentence

  • Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways.
  • Some are remote from modern civilisation, others survive cheek by jowl with spreading towns and motorways.
  • My house stands cheek by jowl with a hardware shop.
  • She and her family have to live cheek by jowl with these people.
  • Cars and two-wheelers stood cheek by jowl along the sides of the road linking Race Course Road and Avanashi Road, until the parking space was completely full.
  • It was incongruous to see a thief sitting there cheek by jowl with the policeman.
  • The poor lived cheek by jowl in industrial mining towns in Victorian England.
  • It was incongruous to see a thief sitting there cheek by jowl with the policeman.
  • All around them, as the car moved slowly on, were warehouses, new and old cheek by jowl together; commission merchants, their produce spilled over the sidewalk; noisy freight yards, with spur-tracks running off to shipping-rooms of all descriptions; occasional empty ground used as dumps, littered with ashes and old tin cans; over all a thousand smells, each more undelectable than the last. V. V.'s Eyes
  • She has to live cheek by jowl with oiks, people with tattoos and stolen videos.
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