Meaning of cheek-by-jowl | Babel Free

Examples

“As we drove at breakneck speed through the streets, I could not help but be overwhelmed by the gaunt and desperate faces of the people, the endless squatter settlements of cheek-by-jowl, single-room shacks surrounded by ankle-deep mud, and the occasional glimpses of the rich apparently oblivious to the suffering around them.”

“The cells here take advantage of the cheek-by-jowl situations prevailing in tissues and make their Circus connections right at the points of contact.”

“Notorious among these was the 'Slap-Up', a cheek-by-jowl community of 2,000 people sited to the west of town.”

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