How to Use cheeked in a Sentence

cheeked

adjective

• As a steady rain fell, Messrs. Macron and Trump exchanged a handshake and a two-cheeked kiss.
  — Michael C. Bender, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2018
• The video boasts hot, rough-cheeked cowboys line-dancing.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 15 June 2017
• The rosy-cheeked waitress brings the food and makes a joke in guttural Züridütsch that even the German can’t understand.
  — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2018
• Other than that, the mother of two says that her kids are happy, rosy-cheeked and have lots of endurance.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 16 July 2019
• The quick video shows a chubby-cheeked little boy named Louie sitting in a baby seat in the middle of a room.
  — Christina Oehler, Woman's Day, 31 July 2015
• Die-hards come in all sizes, too: Spot the red-cheeked lilliputian cowboy, rocking an XXL hat that’s almost their size.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2019
• The fan missed them, but Chamberland called police, and wide-eyed, chubby-cheeked Marie, now 4 months old, was removed from the home.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2019
• For two years, chief negotiator Davis has been the white-haired, ruddy-cheeked face of Brexit.
  — Author: William Booth, Karla Adam, Anchorage Daily News, 9 July 2018
• At a press conference in Rome last week, two scholars unveiled a small, painted tile of a rosy-cheeked, curly-haired Archangel Gabriel.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
• Ringing the stage and filling the back booths were smooth-cheeked Anglo soldiers little older than the stripper.
  — Mark Schone, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2000
• She was vaulted into its midst, hot-cheeked, with a galloping heart.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
• Dressed as a bandit in black costume and a jaunty hat, with a cigar in one hand, the rosy-cheeked boy—his hair just slightly askew—has a little smirk on his face.
  — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 3 July 2018
• Man and puppet look a bit like conjoined twins, with the rosy-cheeked Hildreth dressed in a matching white snowsuit complete with a jaunty Nordic hat.
  — Jessica Gelt, latimes.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• Sophia Paden holds a piece of papaya up to the fence for Pepper, a northern white-cheeked gibbon, whose counterparts in the wild number fewer than 1,000.
  — Sharon Boorstin, latimes.com, 4 July 2019
• Two men, clearly a couple, coo over a pink-cheeked baby girl who is triumphantly waving a stuffed duck.
  — Jancee Dunn, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2019
• Now 10 weeks old, chubby-cheeked little Le Nhat Manh sits cradled in his grandfather's lap as the elder man sobs.
  — CNN, 28 Oct. 2019
• Swainson's thrushes (the flutey sound of summer), olive-sided flycatchers, gray-cheeked thrushes and the thrush with the song that never gets old, the American robin.
  — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
• Each year, there was more to be shot: more death-defying jumps, exploding doghouses, nuns in full habit, and red-cheeked toddlers — all on skis.
  — Steve Chawkins, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• The two huge fig trees found here are home to large numbers of frugivorous birds like the Asian koel, white-cheeked barbet, roseringed parakeet, the common myna, and the jungle myna.
  — Bahar Dutt, Quartz India, 22 Oct. 2019
• But other times — with Lily, the 9-month-old with wispy blond hair and a habit of staring people down, and with Aziyah, a chubby-cheeked infant with a raspy giggle — the cases hitched slowly through the system.
  — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• To avoid that, the two, who share their sleeper cab with three small dogs and a green-cheeked parakeet, often cook outside on a folding table with an extension cord running back to the cab.
  — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2017
• Enjoy three days on safari here, looking for big cats, giraffes, oryx, rare black-faced impalas, and endemic birds like the bare-cheeked babbler.
  — National Geographic, 15 Sep. 2019
• Another standout features a woman looking to the heavens, as four rosy-cheeked men peer out from a horizontal slice in her white frock.
  — The New Yorker, 18 May 2017
• The text accompanied a photo of Cataldo, a rosy-cheeked woman with a neat brown bob, cuddling with her amiable-looking bald husband.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
• With high-cheeked blush fusing with the structured eye shadow—plus a couple models’ gazes bedecked with Swarovski crystals—the effect was disco-ready.
  — Vogue, 10 Sep. 2019
• The first golden-cheeked warblers, with brilliant yellow faces streaked with black, have arrived from Mexico and Central America to raise their young.
  — Joel Sartore, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2016
• Ruddy-cheeked Norsemen clattered out of trains on cross-country skis and headed into a Norwegian wood as pretty as a Beatles song, the miners' lights on their caps glowing in the silent night.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• Now, Santa is all but entrenched in the Christmas lexicon, the rosy-cheeked face of Christmas who is the subject of movies, perennial parental lies and debates about childhood materialism.
  — Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Oct. 2017
• After the glorious pictures from the royal wedding, a picture of a chubby-cheeked baby (with the proud parents gazing down adoringly) sounds pretty perfect.
  — Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 27 Dec. 2018
• But even these nuggets are presented as minor impediments to an unfolding slice of Americana, the fuzzy-cheeked hero with requisite nerves, straight out of central casting.
  — Tim Layden, SI.com, 28 June 2019

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