cheeks

Example Sentences

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Others lined up to pay $10 to mall staff wearing "Face Painter" vests before posing for selfies with cheeks bearing their national side's colors.

From Barron's • Jun. 27, 2026

“My cheeks were on fire and my heart was pounding,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

If a serpent’s prey happens to have seeds in their cheeks, “they will disperse those seeds, acting as nature’s gardeners, pooping out the seeds in a little pile of fertilizer,” Taylor said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

Briany, with her plump cheeks and full head of dark hair, wasn’t normally this fussy.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

Beside her sat a giant Pepsi, and the teeniest, tiniest baby with the biggest, squishiest cheeks.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith