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Someone who is hollow-cheeked has afacethat is toothin. 面颊凹陷的SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesAnimal physiology: thin or slender (of people) - be skin and bone(s)idiom
- beanpole
- cadaverous
- ectomorph
- emaciation
- gaunt
- gauntness
- gracile
- hard-bodied
- hatchet-faced
- hollow
- lanky
- raw-boned
- scrawny
- skinny
- slenderize
- slight
- svelte
- sylphlike
- trim
See more results » (Definition ofhollow-cheekedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)Examplesofhollow-cheekedhollow-cheeked A thin,hollow-cheekedman came into the photography room.FromProject Gutenberg His face becamehollow-cheeked; his eyelids got heavy and drooped over his round eyes, half covering them.FromProject Gutenberg They becomehollow-cheekedand pale, while their coarse laugh and gestures indicate a deep demoralization.FromProject Gutenberg He washollow-cheekedand wild-eyed, and looked at me in a strange, fascinated way.FromProject Gutenberg He was long-haired,hollow-cheekedand bearded like a pirate.FromProject Gutenberg Her face, twisted towards us, washollow-cheekedand flushed.FromProject Gutenberg Under the window sat ahollow-cheekedman bowed over his bench, in the act of sewing a new sole on to a worn-out shoe.FromProject Gutenberg He was a slightly built man of about thirty, fair-haired andhollow-cheeked.FromProject Gutenberg And that one was ahollow-cheeked, unhappy, nervous, apprehensive creature.FromProject Gutenberg A young woman, gaunt andhollow-cheeked, with three children, trying to make her way back to the city, had sunk exhausted by the road-side.FromProject Gutenberg Or may be, as she's in the school-teaching line, she's taken some high-browed,hollow-cheekedhigh-school principal for her ideal.FromProject Gutenberg Hishollow-cheekedface was almost skeletal in the light that flooded out from behind him.FromProject Gutenberg They werehollow-cheeked, with hungry eyes and bloodless lips, and deep lines about their mouths, as if they had not seen food for weeks.FromProject Gutenberg As thehollow-cheekedboy "sopped" his biscuit, his poor, pinched countenance wrinkled into a smile, and his sunken eyes glistened with delight.FromProject Gutenberg The spectators, seeking explanations, saw a cadaverous-looking man,hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed, white-lipped, who stepped as though the avenue were full of puddles of nitroglycerine--uncertainly, fearfully!FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/hollow-cheeked## |