red-faced
Example Sentences
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Host Alan Cumming was quick to catch him out, leaving Mescal red-faced.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
They sit toe to toe on the gym floor, and Ilya offers a red-faced, panting Shane his water bottle.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2026
It was a reach—“I’m never mad,” Manley said—so he asked Chalamet to berate him off-camera to get worked up for a red-faced confrontation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
A red-faced Mattis replies, “At ease, Lieutenant General”—“at ease” being a phrase that senior officers invoke to put subordinates in their place—“you can’t talk to me that way.”
From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2024
“What nonsense!” declared the red-faced colonel, and swung away from the chaplain with dignity and annoyance.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
