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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jawline
noun
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▪ A faint stubble roughened his chin and just beneath his jawline was a small crescent-shaped scar.
▪ Fiona, 43, had surgery earlier this year to tighten her sagging jawline.
▪ He had short-cropped hair and a jawline lean and sharp enough to cut cake.
▪ It covered the whole of her face, shaping to its contours and jutting out with an exaggerated jawline.
▪ There are twin rivulets of sweat running from her temples to her jawline.
▪ Try tiaras and crowns and always wear hair below your jawline to create the illusion of length.
Wiktionary
jawline

n. The lower edge of the side of the face (below the cheek), defined by the jawbone.

Usage examples of "jawline".

Set low, shining upward, casting a warm and gentle light, the footlights soften the jawline, enhance the forehead, make mysterious the eyes and merry the mouth.

The worst furrows of keloidal tissue stretched across the cheekbone down to the jawline.

Sapientia reclined on a couch while her attendants fluttered around her and her new physicianon loan from Margrave Judith and newly arrivedtested her pulse by means of pressing two fingers to her skin just under her jawline.

Their triangular sideburns reached their jawlines, and their conical pompadours extended maybe twenty centimeters in front of their foreheads.

He reached down, the calluses ridging the index finger and thumb of his sword hand scraping her chin and jawline as he raised her face.

We've done the trachea shave, the nose contouring, the jawline contouring, the forehead realignment .

However, a certain ascetic quality in his thin lips and straight thin nose, and a trace of nobility in his chin and jawline, made it impossible to deny him the approbative 'distinguished'.

Loufan sketched quickly, capturing in a few clever lines the intense face--remembered by most in its panic at being stranded--the wide-set, slightly tilted huge dark eyes above prominent cheekbones, the abundant waving dark hair framing it, the fine straight nose, the small cautious mouth, the long sweep of a determined jawline, the odd cleft in the chin.

Discreet earbuds adding their hum to our left ears, flesh-toned pickups parallel to our jawlines.

The jawline, the eyes, the length of their limbs they were not identical by any means, but close enough that blood kinship was inescapable.

His voice brought me back to full consciousness: I'd been slipping into alpha waves because the cold was clamped round my skull and shrinking the carotid arteries below the jawline.

A shaggy white Fu Manchu mustache ran down the sides of his mouth, continuing past the jawline and dangling an inch.

He scanned the jawlines visible under the red-tinted visors, tried to match them with ones in his memory and then found that he couldn't.

Though only a portion of their faces was visible, the jawlines matched and so did the complexion of one of them.

Black leather strips stitched their way down gaunt cheeks, reaching past hairless jawlines where they were tied around small longbones that ran parallel to the jaw.