Example Sentences

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Mother’s heavily jowled face, exhausted from overwork, had lifted with a rare smile of hope and pride.

From Salon • Sep. 17, 2017

The heavily jowled, slightly clumsy pooch has received national and international media coverage, including in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes, Huffington Post, ESPN, ABC News and even the BBC.

From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2017

There was Duncan Fletcher, resplendent in a bright red India training shirt, a little more heavily jowled than we remember, sitting alongside India's captain, Mahendra Dhoni.

From The Guardian • Jul. 14, 2011

After receiving a diploma citing him as "Germany's fastest minister," Strauss jowled: "I felt safer than on the Autobahn!"

From Time Magazine Archive

At Slidell we changed into another Greyhound bus with a new driver—a middle-aged man, large-bellied with a heavy, jowled face filigreed with tiny red blood vessels near the surface of his cheeks.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin