cheeked
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cheeked
Example Sentences
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Through all this, Veronika sat pale cheeked by the fire, curled in a chair with her arms hugged ’round her thin chest.
From Literature
A few weeks later, his son Robert Owen Lehman Jr. says, he received the drawing, a portrait of a rosy cheeked woman with a soft smile, from his father as a holiday gift.
From New York Times
Of course, it helps that the figure doing the desecration was a chubby cheeked Austrian hamster, carefully bobbing across a graveyard on its way to eat a meal of flowers and candle wax.
From The Guardian
We went in and found that every hiker for twenty miles was already there, several of them sitting around a wood stove eating chili or ice cream and looking rosy cheeked and warm and clean.
From Literature
Wrinkled or not, supple cheeked or sagging jowls, every day we live and breathe is always a celebration of our ability to continue thriving.
From New York Times
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