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Examples

  • Where do you think the daughters got their high-cheeked coiffed look from?

    Staar: Sex and the Much Married Girl (A Salute to Zsa Zsa Gabor) Staar 2011

  • The colonel resembles a lot of military men in her country, high-cheeked and chisel-jawed, though exceptionally thick through the chest.

    The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010

  • The young man's sun-scorched, high-cheeked face reminded me of someone.

    Archive 2009-06-03 philip j cunningham 2009

  • The young man's sun-scorched, high-cheeked face reminded me of someone.

    THE PEOPLE'S ARMY AND THE PEOPLE philip j cunningham 2009

  • A thin, handsome man with a high-cheeked, angular face caught my attention.

    WORKING CLASS HEROES philip j cunningham 2009

  • A thin, handsome man with a high-cheeked, angular face caught my attention.

    Archive 2009-05-18 philip j cunningham 2009

  • He was young, certainly, and his high-cheeked face would have seemed innocent but for the weatherbeaten skin that reddened his brow and nose.

    Sun of Suns 2006

  • He had a high-cheeked face set atop a long and jutting neck, the face eccentrically composed and vulnerable to any number of droll comparisons.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • “So much trouble,” Mr. Song said, his high-cheeked face creased into a long wrinkle of worry.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • He had a high-cheeked face set atop a long and jutting neck, the face eccentrically composed and vulnerable to any number of droll comparisons.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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