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Meanings of sunken cheeks in anglès

Lack or loss of the soft tissues between the zygomata and mandible.

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        Examples for "hollow cheeks"
        Examples for "hollow cheeks"
        1
        The hollow cheeks were gradually rounded and given the faintest possible bloom.
        His Sombre Rivals
        2
        Ella rose at last and brushed the tears from her hollow cheeks.
        The Foolish Virgin
        3
        There were no hollow cheeks here, no pallid faces, no shrunken limbs.
        The Californians
        4
        His face was pockmarked and beardless, with deepset eyes and hollow cheeks.
        A Game of Thrones
        5
        Belts were tightened, and there were hollow cheeks among the thralls.
        The Path of the King
        Usage of sunken cheeks in anglès
        1
        Perhaps the sunken cheeks and the protruding cheekbones gave her this impression.
        The Ragged Edge
        2
        The alabaster of the sunken cheeks was untouched by any hectic display.
        The Heart of Unaga
        3
        His eyes were bright, his sunken cheeks told of fever or famine.
        In Kings' Byways
        4
        He's also thin, medium build with rakish red hair and sunken cheeks.
        The whore of babylon, a memoir
        5
        He looks a bit wrecked with his shaggy hair and sunken cheeks.
        The Irish Times
        6
        She was old, her sunken cheeks indicating that many teeth were missing.
        Kennedy's brain
        7
        Fingertips still grazing Hetherington's sunken cheeks, her body convulsed against Gavin's.
        Too wicked to kiss
        8
        Those deep-set eyes and sunken cheeks had been familiar to her for years.
        The Firm of Girdlestone
        9
        To her astonishment there lay an old squaw with sunken cheeks and eyes.
        Young Lion of the Woods / Or, A Story of Early Colonial Days
        10
        Tears spilled down Hakone's sunken cheeks as he fell back in the chair.
        Hidden Warrior
        11
        Wrinkled, bent, with sunken cheeks, they had changed entirely in appearance.
        In Those Days: The Story of an Old Man
        12
        Tears ran over his sunken cheeks, salt and warm like blood.
        Java Head
        13
        The creases of his skin fell in soft folds along his sunken cheeks.
        Commuters: a novel
        14
        By the twelfth, her sunken cheeks had filled in a little.
        The shifter
        15
        Ice crystals fell from the corpse's open mouth, trailed down her sunken cheeks.
        Wicked lovely
        16
        The flesh of his sunken cheeks was rippled and crusted black.
        Shadow's son
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        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Common