blush
verb (used without object)
to redden, as from self-consciousness, embarrassment, or shame.
Example Sentences
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“Well, yes,” she replies, blushingly modest, to which Mr. Asner barks his memorable punchline:
From Washington Post ● Aug. 29, 2021
Neither actor delivers the most mellifluous iambic pentameter you’ve ever heard, and nor should they: the lines roll eagerly, earnestly, blushingly off their tongues, like eighth-graders reading and writing poetry for the first time.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 1, 2016
There is more of a social life, too: a young employee, recently arrived from remote Xianyang, talks blushingly about her evenings with handsome co-workers at the Cyberfox, the campus internet café.
From Economist ● Dec. 13, 2012
In “Vienna Waltzes” Ms. Reichlen is blushingly demure; in Peter Martins’s “Thou Swell” she’s authoritatively glamorous, and adult; and as Calliope in Balanchine’s “Apollo” she’s the devout embodiment of creative endeavor.
From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2011
As she blushingly laid her hand in Sternsilver's unresisting clasp Seiden patted them both on the shoulder.
From The Competitive Nephew by Glass, Montague
