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Meanings of sunken cheeks in English

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

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Usage of sunken cheeks in English
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
This collocation consists of:
Sunken cheeks through the time
Sunken cheeks across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common