| 词汇 | hollow-cheeked |
| 释义 | hollow-cheeked adjective uk /ˌhɒl.əʊˈtʃiːkt/ us /ˌhɑː.loʊˈtʃiːkt/ Someone who is hollow-cheeked has a face that is too thin.面颊凹陷的 Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people) be as thin as a rakephrase be skin and bone(s)idiom ectomorph ectomorphic emaciated emaciation gauntly hollow lithe scrawny slender slight slimly slimness sparely thinness ultra-thin waif-like wasted wiry Examples of hollow-cheekedhollow-cheeked A thin, hollow-cheeked man came into the photography room. From Project Gutenberg His face became hollow-cheeked; his eyelids got heavy and drooped over his round eyes, half covering them. From Project Gutenberg They become hollow-cheeked and pale, while their coarse laugh and gestures indicate a deep demoralization. From Project Gutenberg He was hollow-cheeked and wild-eyed, and looked at me in a strange, fascinated way. From Project Gutenberg He was long-haired, hollow-cheeked and bearded like a pirate. From Project Gutenberg Her face, twisted towards us, was hollow-cheeked and flushed. From Project Gutenberg Under the window sat a hollow-cheeked man bowed over his bench, in the act of sewing a new sole on to a worn-out shoe. From Project Gutenberg He was a slightly built man of about thirty, fair-haired and hollow-cheeked. From Project Gutenberg And that one was a hollow-cheeked, unhappy, nervous, apprehensive creature. From Project Gutenberg A young woman, gaunt and hollow-cheeked, with three children, trying to make her way back to the city, had sunk exhausted by the road-side. From Project Gutenberg Or may be, as she's in the school-teaching line, she's taken some high-browed, hollow-cheeked high-school principal for her ideal. From Project Gutenberg His hollow-cheeked face was almost skeletal in the light that flooded out from behind him. From Project Gutenberg They were hollow-cheeked, with hungry eyes and bloodless lips, and deep lines about their mouths, as if they had not seen food for weeks. From Project Gutenberg As the hollow-cheeked boy "sopped" his biscuit, his poor, pinched countenance wrinkled into a smile, and his sunken eyes glistened with delight. From Project 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! From Project 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. |
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