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Example sentences for "flush"

Lexicographically close words:
flur; flure; flurried; flurries; flurry; flushed; flushes; flushing; flushings; flusht
  1. For a moment an angry flush burned in Eric's face.

  2. There was a flush on her faded cheek and her voice trembled.

  3. He held out the book to her, but, to his surprise, she shook her head, with a deeper flush on her face.

  4. It was within half an hour of sunset, and the level rays of the sun suffused the sea with a flush of gold and crimson.

  5. The vessel was a low-built brigantine, with a flush deck, on either side of which was ranged a battery of six carronades--in all twelve guns.

  6. You would have thought so from the sparkle that came into her eyes, like sunshine striking the dew in a violet--from the quick, generous curve of her lips, and the flush of color that rushed over her face.

  7. The night hours dragged on slowly, and still Sara slept on, until in the pale dawn Morva gently opened the door and looked out towards the east, where a rosy light was beginning to flush the clear blue of a cloudless sky.

  8. Lillian, a flush on her cheek and a flash in her eye, “do you know where you are?

  9. A warm flush came into my face, and the mercury of excitement went up several degrees.

  10. He was, in consequence, rather unpopular with the scholars, and I have often seen his face flush at a sneer about his being the favorite, after a refusal to join in some plan to worry Miss Hester.

  11. His very charm and the flush and brilliance that were part of it went to swell the prodigal's account.

  12. She saw his face flush as he bowed his head in eating; she allowed her fancy to rest in its morbid abhorrence of the act, and in its suspicion of its grossness.

  13. He frowned, and a dull flush of anger coloured the frown.

  14. There was a deep flush on one side of his face, one corner of his mouth was slightly drawn, and one eyelid drooped.

  15. A quick flush pulsed through the whiteness of Anne's face.

  16. They pleaded sweetly, persistently, till Anne's brooding face wore the flush of surrender to the mysteries of earth.

  17. She didn't like the flush on his cheek nor the queer burning brilliance in his eyes.

  18. Alex saw that her mother's pretty, youthful-looking flush of pleasurable excitement had mounted to her face.

  19. Seeing this, a slow, burning flush crept up into her father's face, his jaws worked.

  20. Her sincerity was undoubted, and a flush of pleasure rose on his cheek, and a light came into his eyes which only she could bring there.

  21. This roused Flick to a sudden interest, some light came into his heavy eyes, a dull flush rose on his cheek.

  22. Inherited and traditional pride was in the haughty and surprised uplift of his head; a bright flush had risen on his cheek and his eyes sparkled with a thousand wounded and angry reflections.

  23. Excuse me," a dark flush rose on his parchment skin at this breach of mining-camp etiquette which he had almost committed.

  24. She was standing a little apart eagerly watching the manoeuvres beneath, a slight flush of excitement in her cheeks, and the expressive eyes wide and interested.

  25. A flush had come over her face, giving way to a momentary paleness, then it returned.

  26. The flush of excitement which had come into Edala's cheeks, the sparkle in her fearless blue eyes, rendered the face surpassingly beautiful.

  27. Her hair, and eyes, and graceful carriage were as grand as ever, and her forehead as clear and noble; but her face had lost the bright puzzle of youth, and the flush of damask beauty.

  28. A faint flush illuminated the settled pallor of Mdme.

  29. And I was a hard-headed man of business, anxious, brain-weary, long past the flush of hopeful youth.

  30. He was then in the flush of success, and I have heard my son say that he had a handsome apartment.

  31. A hot flush surged to his brow, and he instantly stepped aside, looking crestfallen and half-ashamed.

  32. My name is Mona Montague," the young girl replied, a slight flush suffusing her cheek beneath his keen glance.

  33. A deep flush covered her face, and in her eyes there were restrained tears.

  34. A slight flush overspread her face; her animated glance rested involuntarily upon the family pedigree that hung opposite to them.

  35. With the flush on her face a little hightened, the young girl promptly crossed to where the tract hung; and a strange stillness settled over the listeners as her clear voice sounded distinctly down the long room.

  36. A crimson flush slowly mounted to the cheek of the girl, and she hung her head without a word in reply.

  37. The dark flush had not faded from his face, which was no longer expressionless.

  38. I must see you, if only for a minute, sir," he said hastily, then as he caught sight of the visitor a flush spread over his features.

  39. Faith had just time to recognize the picture as that of Mr. Watkins when Miss Jennings closed the book with a flush of annoyance.

  40. The flush that mantled the young man's brow showed that her words had struck home, but he tried to turn it off with a neatly put compliment.

  41. Then I shall despise you," said Faith, with a flush of color in her cheeks.

  42. A flush rose quickly to the young man's brow.

  43. The young man leaned back quickly, and a flush of shame mounted to his brow.

  44. But now the sounds of population fail, 125 No cheerful murmurs fluctuate in the gale, No busy steps the grass-grown foot-way tread, For all the bloomy flush of life is fled.

  45. I'll wait here," she said to herself, a faint flush lighting up the chaste beauty of her face.

  46. A sudden gleam of joy in the eyes, a flush of red upon the cheek, and the quick following pallor told Dick the thoughts that rushed through Margaret's heart.

  47. Her words came hurriedly and there was a slight flush on her cheek.

  48. Margaret caught the glance, and, though enraged at herself, she could not prevent a warm flush spreading over her fair cheek and down her bare neck.

  49. A little smile was struggling to the corners of her mouth and a faint flush touched her pale cheek.

  50. A warm glow came into her eyes and a flush upon her cheek.

  51. But she could not sleep; with the first pink flush of dawn she was glad to rise and go out on deck to cool her tired eyes in the fresh air.

  52. These were strongly built, wooden skiffs with three water tight compartments in each; one amidships, one fore and one aft, with decks flush with the gunwales.

  53. Enoch read the account to the last word, a flush of agonizing humiliation deepening on his face as he did so.

  54. A sudden flush made roses in Diana's beautifully modeled cheeks.

  55. There was a certain flush on Olga's face, and she explained that she had been sitting over the fire.

  56. Besides----" A faint flush mounted to his cheek.

  57. In spite of all Lucia's self-control, the immediate answer it got was a flush of heightened colour.

  58. Georgie, with a sudden flush of the spring-time through him.

  59. In the latter half of the twelfth century, when Iceland was in the flush of literary production, Denmark lingered behind.

  60. The billows were washing away the thwarts, and the sea was flush with the decks, when Odd, seeing the vessels almost on a level with the waves, ordered the heavy seas that had been shipped to be baled out with pitchers.

  61. Rutter looked at the ungainly boy with the round shoulders and the hanging head; for the moment he was improved out of knowledge, his flat chest swelling, his big head thrown back, a proud flush upon his face.

  62. His eyes dropped at once, and Rutter in turn saw the ready flush come to his cheeks.

  63. Heriot's open windows were flush with the street, and passing footfalls sounded loud in his room; but at the moment there were none; and a clock ticked officiously on the chimneypiece while the man with his back to it met his sister's eyes.

  64. But nothing was further from his thoughts; indeed, there was a certain dull gleam in his eyes, and a sallow flush upon his face, which had not been there the previous evening.

  65. But he had a spirit more easily angered than abased, and the brown flush which swept him from collar to cap was not one of unmixed embarrassment.

  66. Twas evening still, and in the west A flush of glowing crimson lay; I saw the morrow there, and blest That promise of a glorious day.

  67. The sunny Italy may boast The beauteous tints that flush her skies, And lovely, round the Grecian coast, May thy blue pillars rise.

  68. O crimson flush of morning that darkens as we gaze!

  69. When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers.


  70. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flush" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablution; abundant; ace; affluent; afterglow; align; alive; ample; aplenty; bake; bang; baptize; bathe; beat; blaze; bloom; blossom; blush; boil; boot; bottomless; bouncing; bountiful; bower; brew; brimming; broil; bulging; burn; bursting; capacity; card; charge; chase; choke; color; coloring; comfortable; congested; cook; copious; course; crammed; crimson; darken; deck; delirium; deluge; deuce; diamond; diffuse; dog; douche; drench; drive; dummy; ebb; effuse; elate; elevate; enema; epidemic; equalize; even; evenly; exactly; exalt; extravagant; exuberant; fascinate; fat; fell; fertile; fever; filled; fire; fitness; flame; flare; flat; flatten; flicker; flood; florid; flow; flush; flushed; font; fountain; fowl; fresh; frown; fry; full; galore; gargle; gasp; generous; geyser; glare; glint; gloss; glow; glower; glowing; gnarl; grade; gratify; green; growl; gun; gush; hale; hand; hardy; hawk; hearty; heat; hectic; holystone; horizontal; hound; hunt; imbrue; imbue; impregnate; incandescence; independent; inexhaustible; infiltrate; infuse; inject; intoxicate; irrigate; irrigation; issue; joker; jollies; kick; king; knave; lather; launder; lave; lavish; lay; lengthwise; level; liberal; lift; loaded; lour; lower; luster; lusty; luxuriant; luxurious; macerate; make; mantle; many; maximal; money; moneyed; much; numerous; opulent; overflowing; overfull; overstuffed; pack; packed; pair; pale; pant; parch; percolate; permeate; pink; plain; plane; plenary; plentiful; plenty; plop; plumb; plump; plunk; pour; precisely; prevailing; prevalent; prodigal; productive; profuse; prosperous; quiver; rampant; raze; redden; redness; regurgitate; remittent; replete; rich; rife; right; rinse; rinsing; riotous; roast; robust; roll; rose; rosy; rouge; round; rubber; rubicund; ruddy; rude; ruff; rugged; run; rush; sanguine; satiated; saturate; saturated; scald; scorch; scour; scouring; scowl; scrub; seethe; sensation; shampoo; sheen; shine; shiver; shoot; shower; shudder; simmer; skylight; sluice; smack; smolder; smooth; smother; snap; snarl; soak; soaked; soap; sodden; sop; souse; spade; spark; spew; spit; sponge; sponging; sport; spout; spray; spurt; square; squarely; squashed; squirt; stalk; stalwart; stammer; start; steam; steep; stew; stifle; stout; straight; stream; strong; stuffed; sturdy; successful; suffocate; suffuse; suffusion; sunburned; superabundant; surfeited; surge; swab; sweat; swollen; syringe; tabloid; tabular; teeming; thrill; tickle; tingle; tingling; toast; track; trail; tremor; trend; trick; trump; tub; uplift; vigorous; vital; warm; warmth; wash; washing; washout; wealthy; whiten; wholesale; youthful


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    flush times; flushed face