rosy-cheeked

Example Sentences

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We’re a long way from Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post portraits of doting parents taking their rosy-cheeked children to the avuncular family doctor for back-to-school checkups.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

At the end of a gravel road, a few children played outdoors, rosy-cheeked in the bitter cold, one wearing a Spiderman woolly hat.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

I can't recall the title, but it had a green plastic spiral binding and a paperback cover with a rosy-cheeked grandmother in a frilled apron on the front.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2023

Other early works feature chonguinada dancers, in which performers of the central highland dance don rosy-cheeked masks and parody colonial Spaniards.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2022

I look flushed, like a rosy-cheeked summer girl who belongs in the sun.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon