Example sentences for: cheeks

How can you use “cheeks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 19th-century France, fashionable ladies applied increasingly elaborate beauty spots to their upper cheeks.

  • It may have been the doughy look of earnest concentration on the young man's ample cheeks, or it may have been his habit, at the conclusion of every dazzling, double-stopped arpeggio, of deftly lifting his bow off the strings with a satisfied air--a happy pastry chef, pleased and relieved to have given the world one more perfect Linzer torte.

  • Most find her irresistible, sometimes to the point of over-sharing: "You just want to wipe away the tears from her baby-fat cheeks and give snookums a big old hug" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). ( Slate 's David Edelstein is one of those smitten: "It's worth seeing, it demands to be seen, for Drew Barrymore, who is at once the dizziest and most magically poised comedienne in movies today."

  • Since Frank: 1) talks incredibly fast; 2) has a thick accent (Bayonne, N.J., not Boston); and 3) seems to have cotton wool lodged in his cheeks, this sounds more like "Wildegenmenyeelistime?"

  • Ohio Republican Steven Chabot has buried his head in his hands and is yanking his cheeks in frustration.


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