cheeked
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cheeked
Example Sentences
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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 • May 9, 2024
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
A small, white-faced, rosy cheeked, bow-tie sporting puppet – clown-like, but not quite ready for the circus, sometimes riding a bike, but always, always terrifying.
From The Guardian • Aug. 3, 2017
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
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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