Example Sentences

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Blushes stained the cheeks of Guards officers and Scotland Yard officials royal scarlet last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blushes were a great stock-in-trade with Madame d'Ambre.

From The Guests Of Hercules by Bracker, M. Leone

In Nonpareil I'll put your Face;   In Rubric shall your Blushes rise; There is no Bourgeois in your Case;   Your Form can never need "Revise."

From De Libris: Prose and Verse by Dobson, Austin

Blushes played hide-and-seek in the small cheeks that were usually pale.

From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard

Blushes stole to her cheek without any apparent cause, and light, half-suppressed sighs would follow these short fits of musing.

From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Irving, Washington