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 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

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

She felt sure he would come, because he also had blushed at seeing her, and he had been away the whole time.

From The Fisher Girl by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne

She had blushed and paled in alternate seconds.

From The House 'Round the Corner by Tracy, Louis