cheeked
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cheeked
Example Sentences
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A few weeks later, his son Robert Owen Lehman Jr. says, he received the drawing, a portrait of a rosy cheeked woman with a soft smile, from his father as a holiday gift.
From New York Times • May 9, 2024
Nimue is fair of skin and long of hair and played by the rosy cheeked actor from "13 Reasons Why," Katherine Langford.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 2020
Where Varga looks anaemic and exasperated, Thewlis is tall, ruddy- cheeked and relaxed in blue jeans, black blazer and black T-shirt.
From The Guardian • May 29, 2017
In a 2002 painting by John Currin, titled “Two Guys,” a pair of rosy cheeked men pose in familial embrace — rendered in the fairytale color palette for which the painter is known.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2017
She especially loved the daring acrobats, and one in particular, a dark-eyed, ruddy- cheeked boy named Jacques-Paul.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
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