How to Use flushed in a Sentence

flushed

adjective

• The woman swiped the bangs out of her flushed face and lunged.
  — Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
• Check their skin to be sure they're not flushed or sweaty.
  — Jessica Hartshorn, goodhousekeeping.com, 9 May 2023
• The skin may appear flushed, hot to the touch and dry due to lack of sweat production.
  — Thomas J. Henry Personal Injury Law, Dallas News, 14 July 2023
• The boy had his grandmother’s smile, a perched grin with flushed cheeks astride.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
• Phillips also blended a pink blush to her cheeks for a flushed look.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 6 Mar. 2023
• As for glam, Teigen went for a natural look with flushed cheeks and a nude lip.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Oct. 2022
• The brief fling of 2020 left everyone with flushed cheeks and rapid breathing.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2021
• At a table behind me, a man with flushed cheeks and a British accent had a head start.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• Their glowy skin and lightly flushed cheeks paired well with the ethereal hair and dress.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 22 Aug. 2023
• Her had 18 strands of shiny beads draped around his neck, a pile of fruity candy chews at his feet and a smile on his flushed face.
  — Rochelle Olson, Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
• Rosy, flushed cheeks are as much a staple on the app as trending dance challenges.
  — Glamour, 10 Mar. 2022
• Their flushed cheeks are intensified by the pink hue of Rachel’s dress.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
• Lopez paired the daring hairstyle with bold browns, smoky brown eye shadow, flushed cheeks, and a rosy pink pout.
  — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Nov. 2020
• Smedley went there to auger the pipes and found that flushed condoms and feminine products were to blame.
  — Rachel Kurzius, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2023
• Airborne pathogens churned up and out by a flushed toilet can travel more than 5 feet from the toilet.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2022
• There was a moment of doubt when my 6-year-old daughter fell asleep in my lap one morning and awoke flushed and feverish.
  — Marie Holmes, Good Housekeeping, 5 June 2020
• Rather than anything too contrived, her cheeks always look fresh, flushed and healthy.
  — Elle Turner, Glamour, 16 Apr. 2021
• Her flushed face is still mostly hidden from me, behind her hands.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
• How worrisome is a sore throat, a dry cough, feeling a little flushed?
  — Joel Achenbach, Fenit Nirappil, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2021
• Strawberry makeup is quite simple — a light base with flushed red cheeks and glossy lips.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 7 Aug. 2023
• One touch of your flushed forehead would convince your parents to diagnose a fever and keep you home from school.
  — Annie Melchor, WIRED, 7 Jan. 2024
• One touch of your flushed forehead would convince your parents to diagnose a fever and keep you home from school.
  — Annie Melchor, Quanta Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• The TikTok and reality TV star, let her dark eyebrows and lashes do most of the talking, along with a flushed cheek and a touch of lip gloss.
  — Seventeen, 12 Sep. 2022
• My go-to shade is Moody Mauve, which is a quintessential pink blush hue that gives my skin a natural glowy flushed look.
  — Lindsey Metrus, Peoplemag, 30 May 2023
• This process, called vasodilation, also makes the skin appear pinker and more flushed.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 28 June 2023
• But rains have eroded the soil, damaged the banks, exposed tree roots and flushed silt into the water at rates faster than crews can keep up with maintenance and cleanup.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Nov. 2021
• Both characters, on either end of the line, are left flushed, breathing hard; perhaps the reader even feels something too.
  — New York Times, 28 Aug. 2021
• The blood vessels in the skin open up inappropriately and cause the person to get very warm and flushed, often sweating.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 9 Feb. 2023
• Karski is a serious-looking man with flushed cheeks and tailored clothes.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
• Her makeup look was fresh, as Kylie appeared to be rocking a flushed sweep of bronzer and rosy lipstick with a light, natural eye look.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 1 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024