How to Use cheeked in a Sentence

cheeked

adjective
  • Red-cheeked and reticent, the duo shook their heads and took their sheepish leave.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
  • She was vaulted into its midst, hot-cheeked, with a galloping heart.
    — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Other than that, the mother of two says that her kids are happy, rosy-cheeked and have lots of endurance.
    — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 16 July 2019
  • The text accompanied a photo of Cataldo, a rosy-cheeked woman with a neat brown bob, cuddling with her amiable-looking bald husband.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • The trio of Plethodon salamanders, the southern gray-cheeked, red-cheeked and red-legged salamanders, were once thought to be regional variations of the same species.
    — Torben Rick, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
  • My first few days were a sweaty, red-cheeked, nervous-stomached nightmare, until one class reconnected me with the clay tablets that had inspired me in the first place—tablets that happened to showcase some of the first words ever written down.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025
  • At Western, Jim had developed a close relationship with Ruth Platt, a rosy-cheeked and upbeat professor who taught zoology.
    — Jayson Jenks, The Seattle Times, 19 July 2017
  • Now, Santa is all but entrenched in the Christmas lexicon, the rosy-cheeked face of Christmas who is the subject of movies, perennial parental lies and debates about childhood materialism.
    — Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Oct. 2017
  • His specialty was beautiful, rosy-cheeked, elegant Caucasian women, and the title and subject matter of this collection certainly illustrates how much society has changed in the last century.
    — oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2020
  • On a large scale LED screen, a white cheeked spider monkey sits hunched over a smart phone within a smouldering virtual Brazilian forest landscape, occasionally glancing up at his viewers.
    — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Conflicts between human development and the health of wildlife are a universal story, of course—a point underlined by the book’s passing reference to controversies in Texas regarding efforts to preserve the golden-cheeked warbler.
    — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The project isn’t far from Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, a major tourist destination for the community and home for critters like the golden-cheeked warbler and black-capped vireo.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2026
  • The park has a variety of attractions, including more than 16 miles of trails ranging in difficulty, 90-acre Tucket Lake that can be fished, swim and kayak, and acts as a seasonal home to many migratory birds, like the endangered golden-cheeked warbler.
    — Lana Ferguson, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026

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