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
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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
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
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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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