cheeked
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cheeked
Example Sentences
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Nimue is fair of skin and long of hair and played by the rosy cheeked actor from "13 Reasons Why," Katherine Langford.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2020
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 • Dec. 20, 2019
In a 2002 painting by John Currin, titled “Two Guys,” a pair of rosy cheeked men pose in familial embrace — rendered in the fairytale color palette for which the painter is known.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2017
Squirrel cheeked and beetle browed, with rounded shoulders and a scratchy voice, he is a virtuoso of exasperation, a maestro of disappointment, an intrepid navigator through squalls of frustration and failure.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2011
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 "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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