How to Use flushed in a Sentence
flushed
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The woman swiped the bangs out of her flushed face and lunged.
—Oliver Munday, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2023
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Check their skin to be sure they're not flushed or sweaty.
—Jessica Hartshorn, goodhousekeeping.com, 9 May 2023
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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
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The boy had his grandmother’s smile, a perched grin with flushed cheeks astride.
—Kenneth R. Rosen, Wired, 17 Nov. 2020
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Phillips also blended a pink blush to her cheeks for a flushed look.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 6 Mar. 2023
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As for glam, Teigen went for a natural look with flushed cheeks and a nude lip.
—Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Oct. 2022
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The brief fling of 2020 left everyone with flushed cheeks and rapid breathing.
—Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2021
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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
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Their glowy skin and lightly flushed cheeks paired well with the ethereal hair and dress.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 22 Aug. 2023
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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
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Rosy, flushed cheeks are as much a staple on the app as trending dance challenges.
—Glamour, 10 Mar. 2022
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Their flushed cheeks are intensified by the pink hue of Rachel’s dress.
—Leah Dolan, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Rather than anything too contrived, her cheeks always look fresh, flushed and healthy.
—Elle Turner, Glamour, 16 Apr. 2021
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Her flushed face is still mostly hidden from me, behind her hands.
—Joyce Carol Oates, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
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How worrisome is a sore throat, a dry cough, feeling a little flushed?
—Joel Achenbach, Fenit Nirappil, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Dec. 2021
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Strawberry makeup is quite simple — a light base with flushed red cheeks and glossy lips.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 7 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This process, called vasodilation, also makes the skin appear pinker and more flushed.
—Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 28 June 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Karski is a serious-looking man with flushed cheeks and tailored clothes.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2022
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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
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