[
US
/ˈbɫəʃ/
]
[ UK /blˈʌʃ/ ]
[ UK /blˈʌʃ/ ]
NOUN
- sudden reddening of the face (as from embarrassment or guilt or shame or modesty)
- a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health
VERB
-
become rosy or reddish
her cheeks blushed in the cold winter air -
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by
How To Use blush In A Sentence
- Yet Walter so idealised the pretty child whom he had found wandering in the rough streets, and so identified her with her innocent gratitude of that night and the simplicity and truth of its expression, that he blushed for himself as a libeller when he argued that she could ever grow proud. Dombey and Son
- Walpole from then on ridiculed GW, calling him a fanfaron braggart, and saying that he soon “learned to blush for his rodomontade.” George Washington’s First War
- It's frilly and inconsequential and best known for its appearances on princesses, dolls and blushing faces. Times, Sunday Times
- an unblushing apologist for fascism
- Soon the setting sun makes the mountains blush a bridal pink. Times, Sunday Times
- Lor gave a faint, but apparent sign of a blush in her cheek.
- A welcome sign of the times to encourage young men to reach for the blushers and exfoliants?
- Soon the setting sun makes the mountains blush a bridal pink. Times, Sunday Times
- From the front view was the setting sun giving a blush of pink, peach, orange and some purple.
- One of the quickest and most effective ways to give glitz to your looks is to add blusher to your make-up routine.
