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

He is blushing again and looks to me, stricken, for help.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse

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

Tell her, oh, tell her, the tree that, in going, Beside the green arbor she playfully set, As lovely as, ever is blushing and blowing, And not a, bright leaflet has fallen from it yet.

From The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Rossetti, William Michael