Example Sentences

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This 16.5-inch tall doll reportedly has "blushed cheeks" and "life-like eyelashes and eyes" that’ll make kids feel like they’re caring for the real deal.

From Fox News • Nov. 29, 2021

From the bonnie highland heather of her lofty summits to the modest gowan on the lea, not a flower but has blushed with the martyr's blood.

From Gathering Jewels The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam of Mr. & Mrs. James Knowles. Selected from Their Diaries. by Young, Duncan McNeill

He has blushed to own,-explaining, however , conquest by bribery,-that 50,000 Englishmen hold 150,000,000 of his compatriots in thrall, and for aught you know, republicanism may have become his idol.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Many a person has blushed intensely when accused of some crime, though completely innocent of it.

From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles

He has blushed at my good but plain-looking saddle, yet courteously asked me to take a skull seat.

From Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America by Ray, G. Whitfield