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Example sentences for "flushed"

Lexicographically close words:
flure; flurried; flurries; flurry; flush; flushes; flushing; flushings; flusht; fluster
  1. She saw a look of pain come and go in his flushed face, hence the hasty apology, such as it was.

  2. He was astonished by the flushed face she turned toward him and at the wavering eyes which met his in a fashion so strange that he felt a second chill go through his being.

  3. Her face flushed faintly, too, as she recalled his strange avowal of love.

  4. With the doubt her face flushed as though she herself had been caught in a lie, had done a mean thing.

  5. His face flushed with sudden desire to laugh, then it paled in dumb astonishment.

  6. A wave of feeling, a shiver, passed through her, her brow gathered, she flushed deeply.

  7. He could have struck himself in the face for the iniquity of the suggestion; he flushed from the indecency of it; but so have sinners ever flushed as they set forth on the garish road to Avernus.

  8. She flushed hotly and turned her shoulder on him.

  9. Mattresse Aimable had at first flushed to a purple, had afterwards gone pale, then recovered herself, and now returned Philip's look with a downright steadiness.

  10. He laughed a little, his cheek flushed with pleasure.

  11. At that instant he caught sight of the flushed face of Detricand, who broke into a laugh of tipsy mirth when Olivier Delagarde told how the French officer had stricken him down as he was about finishing off Rullecour.

  12. More than once she drew in her breath with a quick, sibilant sound, as though some thought wounded her; and she flushed suddenly, then turned pale, then came to her natural colour again.

  13. Good-night kisses were given, and Harold, Daisy, and little Angus were led off to their nursery by the highly flushed and excited Anne.

  14. She was a brave woman, and whatever anguish might lie underneath, no tears filled her eyes as she looked at his flushed face.

  15. The baby sat up in his cot and gazed hard at his mother with flushed cheeks and round eyes.

  16. No child thought of thanking their benefactor, but flushed cheeks, bright eyes, eager little voices, were thanks louder and more eloquent than words.

  17. His full face, always florid, was now flushed with extra color from agitation.

  18. Mrs. Home's face flushed very brightly, and she lowered her eyes to prevent her husband seeing the look of shame which filled them.

  19. Sarudine alternately flushed and pale with jealousy, found it impossible to remain in one place, but walked restlessly up and down the path.

  20. Yourii flushed angrily, and would have made some insolent reply, but a sudden sense of shame caused him to remain silent.

  21. Sarudine flushed to the roots of his hair.

  22. It was this secret longing that made her flushed and elated.

  23. It was now nearly dark, and Tanaroff was glad that no one could notice his flushed face.

  24. Lida ran, flushed and laughing, to her mother.

  25. This is no joking matter," began Tanaroff, looking flushed and angry.

  26. Flushed with anger, and impelled as by some irresistible force, he left his companions, and rapidly approached Sanine.

  27. Her lips parted in flushed pleasure at the result of her display, for John Pearse was smitten with the collector's fever.

  28. He saw the dry and cracked lips, the flushed face, and fetched water and wine before he would speak to her.

  29. I owe thee something, friend," she smiled, and Tomlin flushed hotly under her close regard.

  30. Thou art fairer, Sultana," replied the giant simply; and the girl flushed warmly for all her moody dissatisfaction.

  31. The blood flushed in Eliza's pale face; she rose, trembling with nervous anxiety, and looked towards her boy.

  32. And Henrique spoke with an earnestness that flushed his handsome face.

  33. The blood flushed to Eliza's cheek in a sudden glow, and went back to her heart with as sudden a rush.

  34. The child rose, and pointed her little hand to the sky; the glow of evening lit her golden hair and flushed cheek with a kind of unearthly radiance, and her eyes were bent earnestly on the skies.

  35. He had kissed her, and even as his lips thrilled with her tremulous caress he flushed with the shame of his deceit.

  36. Nell flushed to her temples, yet she did not raise her eyes nor reply.

  37. You are young here yet; you are flushed with the success of your teaching; you have lived a short time in this quiet village, where, until the last few days, all has been serene.

  38. His tender tone conquered Nell, and she turned to him with flushed cheeks and glad eyes.

  39. The colour flushed over her cheek, the voice sank inaudible within.

  40. It was flushed with anger; the veins in the smooth forehead were swelled; the short lip breathed beautiful contempt.

  41. And now they had gained the hill, a sudden colour flushed over Godolphin's cheek.

  42. It was the great sewer that ran from the hills through the heart of the city, flushed continuously by a diverted mountain stream that swept down from above.

  43. He caught the penetrating glance of Dangloss and flushed under the sudden knowledge that this shrewd old man also understood why she was leaving Edelweiss.

  44. Whereupon she flushed very prettily and felt constrained to avoid Truxton's look of inquiry.

  45. He had heard what Tom had said, and a dull red flushed up under his brown skin.

  46. Madame La Masque," said Norman, flushed sad haughty, "love is not a question of time.

  47. Sir Norman in surprise; for the boy had started so suddenly, and flushed so violently, that it might have astonished any one.

  48. While she read, her face alternately flushed and paled, her eyes dilated, her lips parted; and before she finished it, there came over all a look of the most unutterable horror.

  49. With a feet-throbbing heart, flushed cheeks, and brilliant eyes, the dazzling bride followed him, unconscious that she had never looked so incomparably before in her life.

  50. They came on undismayed, like men flushed with victory.

  51. Presently Grant was through the breach, followed by fifteen or twenty flushed and shouting men.

  52. Sometimes, when we are sitting in our cave after dinner, we hear the tweek of solitary snipe flying overhead, but we have never flushed any.

  53. When Cecil mentioned the caricature she flushed a vivid crimson.

  54. Then he flushed a quick red and set a light foot on a crawling thing of many legs which had emerged from beneath an overturned stone.

  55. He, too, was flushed and palpitating--though not for the same reason.

  56. He noted the flushed cheeks and shaking hands of the woman before him.

  57. Every night at six the anxious little woman, flushed from biscuit-baking and chicken-broiling and almost sick with fatigue, got out the black silk gown and the white lace collar and put them on with trembling hands.

  58. The walk in the bracing air had flushed her cheeks, her lips, her ears, even her nose; her eyes were sparkling gaily.

  59. Ole went to London; he made tests with this coffee, washed out the colouring matter, flushed it thoroughly, and dried it again.

  60. She could not hide her embarrassment entirely and flushed deeply.

  61. She had taken off her veil; she flushed deeply.

  62. She flushed at the jest and drew herself up.

  63. When Paragot with a flourish of his bow responded to the encore, I found my hand slip into Blanquette's and there it remained in a tight grip till flushed and triumphant he again acknowledged the applause.

  64. Unversed in woman's wiles I flushed with pleasure at her flattering interest.

  65. But her eyes brightened and her cheeks flushed a little.

  66. But by degrees the music and the good Savoy wines and the abominable cognac flushed faces and set heads a-swimming.

  67. The latter regarded us superciliously, and Joanna catching his glance flushed to the wavy hair over her forehead.

  68. Once he caught Terry studying him, and instantly his face flushed with anger, and he gave back such a vicious scowl that Terry, apprehensive of an outburst, took care not to meet his glance again.

  69. Terry started, and the colour deepened on his already flushed cheeks.

  70. Lamothe and his men are refusing to obey orders," said Farnsworth a little later, hastily approaching Hamilton, his face flushed and a gleam of hot anger in his eyes.

  71. Madame Roussillon came to the door, flushed with stooping over the fire, and announced that the steak was ready.

  72. Rene's brown face flushed to the temples, partly with anger, partly with the shock of mingled surprise and fear.

  73. He flushed and bit his lip, probably to keep back some hasty retort, and thought rapidly for a moment.

  74. He was flushed and evidently excited; in fact, he had heard of the trouble with Farnsworth, and seeing Alice enter the floor of Hamilton's quarters he followed her in, his heart stirred by no slight emotion.

  75. Her cheeks flushed quickly under their soft brown and her eyes flashed with excitement.

  76. I've got it all here," she added, pressing her fur mitted hands over her bosom, her face flushed and her eyes shining with emotion.

  77. Then, in a moment, the Jew's face flushed under his dark skin.

  78. The immediate thought that Muller was come to propose terms of surrender occurred to him, and he flushed darkly.

  79. The displeasure in Koyala's flushed face mounted to anger.

  80. When she saw he did not intend to dispute her, Koyala flushed and concluded sharply: "--then we will talk of other things.

  81. Brooke's face flushed a trifle, and he slowly closed one hand.

  82. Then she flushed a still ruddier color as she remembered that, in any case, dissimulation was a strong point of his, for she felt distinctly angry with herself for recollecting it.

  83. Saxton was a trifle flushed in face, and his dark eyes had an exultant gleam in them, while the thin, nervous fingers of one hand were closed upon the edge of the table.

  84. Brooke's bronzed face flushed a trifle as he saw his comrade's grin, for it was what had passed between him and Tom Gordon's Bella at the settlement that afternoon which had thrust before him the question what his life was to be.

  85. Brooke's face flushed just a trifle, and again he sat silent a moment or two.

  86. Brooke laid his other hand on her shoulder, and, standing so, while every nerve in him thrilled, still held her a little apart, so that the silvery light shone into her flushed face.

  87. Then she turned and left him with the pony, staring vaguely after her, flushed in face, with a big piece of minted silver in his hand.

  88. Barbara flushed ever so slightly, but her companion noticed it.

  89. She was an almost unbelievably pretty girl, particularly when flushed with anger.

  90. Warren flushed his displeasure and sat down.

  91. Robin was in a high fever: his hands and head burning hot, his cheek flushed red, his eyes rolling, and his brain wandering.

  92. He turned, and his pale face flushed when he saw me.

  93. His thin face was flushed with the joy of coming victory, and his eyes flashed fire.

  94. Some of their faces were flushed with wine.


  95. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flushed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ablaze; afire; ardent; baking; beaming; big; blistering; blithe; blithesome; bloated; boiling; breathless; bright; burning; canicular; cheerful; cheery; cordial; delirious; drunk; ebullient; ecstatic; elated; embarrassed; enchanted; enraptured; enthusiastic; entranced; exalted; excited; exhilarated; exuberant; exultant; febrile; fervent; fervid; feverish; fiery; flaming; florid; flush; flushed; fresh; genial; glad; gladsome; glowing; green; grilling; happy; hearty; heated; hectic; high; hopeful; hot; impassioned; inflamed; intense; intoxicated; irrepressible; jubilant; keen; laughing; lively; optimistic; overheated; overjoyed; passionate; pink; pleasant; possessed; radiant; rapt; rapturous; ravished; rejoicing; rhapsodic; rhapsodical; roasting; rosy; rubicund; ruddy; sanguine; scalding; scorching; seething; sheepish; smiling; sparkling; steaming; steamy; sudorific; sunburned; sunny; sweating; sweaty; sweltering; swollen; torrid; transported; triumphant; unrestrained; vigorous; warm; winsome; youthful; zealous