blush
verb (used without object)
to redden, as from self-consciousness, embarrassment, or shame.
is blushing
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present progressiveof blush (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Berg: Gosh, let the record show, the biographer is blushing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2016
Now Helena Bonham Carter, 21, is blushing again, this time as the heroine of A Hazard of Hearts, an upcoming CBS-TV movie based on the 1949 gothic romance by Barbara Cartland, 85.
From Time Magazine Archive
This stretch of awkward silence is made even more awkward by how hard Hudson is blushing.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
He is blushing again and looks to me, stricken, for help.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
"And he declared that fire is a divinity; divinity, therefore, is blushing in thy nose."
From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Jeremiah Curtin
