aflush

Example Sentences

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Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tall man with the large head and the sharp, hawklike features, sprang to his feet, and stood in the centre of the circle, aflush with excitement.

From What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Sweetheart, be my sweetheart   In the mellow golden glow Of earth aflush with the gracious blush   Which the ripening fields foreshow; Dear sweetheart, be my sweetheart,   As into the noon we go!

From Songs and Other Verse by Field, Eugene

There was a quick, frightened gasp, and the girl's face, all aflush with a new, sweet fearfulness and wondering confusion, vanished behind a ponderous swinging door.

From Average Jones by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

All aflush with offence, Lubov tossed her head nervously, and flinging her work aside, cast a glance at her father; and, taking up the socks again, she bent her head still lower over them.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman