Sentence examples for Chin from inspiring English sources

The word 'chin' is correct and commonly used in written English
It refers to the bottom part of a person's face below their mouth, including the lower jaw and chinbone. Example: She rested her chin on her hand, lost in thought.

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Chin

noun

The bottom of a face, the typically jutting jawline below the mouth.

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And it was always the same dream: in the dream I'd be asleep, I'd wake up, sit up in my bed, and he'd be sitting there on the edge of my bed, staring at me, with the bullet hole still in his chin, about the size of a nickel.

Karpov leant forward, chewed his lip and ran a thumb up and down his chin.

Should I be upset or take it on the chin?

Soho Theatre, W1, Sat, Tue to 7 Mar The first thing you notice about Phil Jerrod is the quite alarming amount of face-foliage that clings to his chin.

I couldn't disclose who had rented the property, because of the risk of repercussions to my close ones, so I had to take the sentence on the chin.

This was a reasonable assumption since the canyon was formed as a crack on the chin of the 5,600-metre 5,600-metrescar, a dangerous brooding giant and the most activolcanoano in the Andes.

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Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 10.35am BST10 35 16th over: England 91-5 (Beaumont 5, Jones 11) Farrell offers Tammy Beaumont a chin-high full toss for her first ball and the England No7 pulls the thing away for four.

There's no chin-stroking over the relative value of "privacy makers " over "privacy takers".

In a more subdued bit of local theatre, representatives from nearly 40 countries gathered this week for the first-ever Edinburgh International Culture Summit.A high-level chin-wag about culture is about as hard-hitting as it sounds.

Mr Clinton, no doubt asked to do nothing to help Mr Kim's cause, was determined above all, well, not to smile.Whether the normally affable Mr Clinton managed to stay poker-faced through the three hours and 15 minutes he and Mr Kim spent in each other's company (long enough, even with translation, for a chin-wag), his aides are not saying.

On the first day, candidates ran five miles in less than 40 minutes and then completed 49 push-ups, 59 sit-ups and six chin-ups.

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