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
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
After the third presidential debate in 2004, a TV puppet called Triumph the Insult Comic Dog infiltrated Spin Alley, where he cheeked representatives of both parties.
From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2010
I cheeked to see where the sun was starting its midday descent.
From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata
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