blush
verb (used without object)
to redden, as from self-consciousness, embarrassment, or shame.
had blushed
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past perfectof blush.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Seeing that a farmhand named John had blushed when he walked past a young woman at Sunday Mass, and that she had blushed, too, he decided to help them meet.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2015
I had been far too shy to ask the teacher what it meant, and Mama had blushed scarlet when I consulted her.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
I told her how he had blushed at first but then he had gotten angry and had jumped up so fast that he overturned his chair and was ready to walk out on me.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
She had blushed when her father found her; when he had said nothing and even laughed in a queer unpleasant sort of a way, she had blushed still more deeply.
From The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett by Compton MacKenzie
For Natalie had blushed to the roots of her hair.
From Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin
