How To Use Cheek In A Sentence

There were points where it could be a bit cheeky and fun. Times, Sunday Times
And while everyone around wished the couple a happy married life, one of the guests decided to be a little cheeky.
He admits he owes a lot of his success to that cheeky grin. The Sun
Deep navy, in contrast, is less demanding, and leaves a bit more colour in a blonde's cheeks.
Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen

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A swingle-tree hung at the pole's end, and a second pair of reins was fast to the driver's seat, the four cheek-buckles lying crossed over the wheeler's backs. Ambrotox and Limping Dick
Marya shook her head, her neatly bobbed dark hair brushing against high cheekbones.
A bee stung me on the cheek.
The driver was 18 to 19 years old, 5ft 6ins tall, hairy with a slim build, dark eyes, a gaunt face and hollow cheeks.
And the site cheekily suggests filling party bags with items cheaper than the show's official merchandise. The Sun
A City priest vowed yesterday that he is no longer willing to turn the other cheek and tolerate the repeated acts of wanton vandalism to the windows of the presbytery which is also his home.
He required surgery on his cheek bone, eye socket and nose. The Sun
He always wiped the dirt or snow off, tucked his ripped shirt-tail in, or went yuk-yuk-yuk as he rubbed his reddening ass-cheeks, and the hate hardly ever showed. Blaze
I've had enough of that boy's cheek.
He peered down into her tearful face with a twisted smile, reaching up to brush some of her wildly cascading hair from her cheek. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
‘Shh, shh… ‘Luke whispered, wiping the tears off of her cheeks with his thumbs.
His teeth were rows of perfectly set pearly whites, and he had a dimple in his left cheek.
A choked sob caught in her throat, and she brought a hand up to her mouth as her eyes filled with tears that spilled over onto her reddened cheeks.
It also boasts an unmatched ventilation and antifog system, removable interior cheek pads and a sturdy chinstrap that can be removed to allow cleaning or replacement.
He looked young, dark and sharp-featured, with hollow cheeks.
He gave me an once-over, slowly letting his gaze survey me up and down, and I felt my cheeks heat up, regretting my stupid retort.
Mothers dropped off their young sons for the first term with a perfunctory peck on the cheek. Times, Sunday Times
Cheeks burning red she babbled apologies, quickly trying to clean the tunic and the table and the floor with her shirt.
The man who's responsible for two of the most black-hearted exposés on psychological cruelty hadn't gone soft - just cheeky and satirical.
The skin of her cheeks tautened.
The happy event occurred in the Taylor's aviary in Wakefield, after the mother - a kakariki called Cheeky - and father Tom, a golden mantel rosella, were reared together from chicks.
Lor gave a faint, but apparent sign of a blush in her cheek.
He tried to give her a kiss on the cheek but she resisted his advance and pushed him away from her face briskly.
Mac put a heavy hand on her shoulder and pushed her aside to allow Jon to stoop in the doorway and lay a girlish kiss on the girl's badly rouged cheek.
Whilst trying to make the melodies inaccessible, these cheeky tykes from Ozzy's old home city have only gone and made them all the more appealing.
Many of the ranchers themselves see all this tourism as a cheeky attempt to commercialise a real and vanishing culture.
I looked him up and down, taking in the unshaven cheeks, the missing button on his shirt, the ratty cuffs on his jeans. NO BODY
The slap she gave him made his cheek tingle.
They kissed her, one cheek each, and departed softly in their pink felt bedroom slippers.
At length one noticed the fact, and another; and then it became the general topic of conversation in the group upon the bridge, where Ethelberta, her hair getting frizzed and her cheeks carnationed by the wind, sat upon a camp-stool looking towards the prow. The Hand of Ethelberta
His face was smooth and beardless, a testament to his youth, with high cheekbones and a delicate looking nose and mouth.
Their demand for pensions deserves, said the national paper, ‘this week's, perhaps this year's, award for barefaced cheek’.
As he introduces another series showcasing the culinary delights of his homeland, he sends a tongue-in-cheek warning to other celeb chefs. The Sun
His only movement was in the tears which crept down his pale cheeks.
If the hair is fairly fine and downy, either on the upper lip or the cheeks, then bleaching is by far the best solution.
A tear trickled down the old man's cheek.
Back beyond even its immediate pre-modern period – what you might call The Andy Gray Years, the dolly bird years – football has always been a sweat-caked man-hole of a place, a realm where men have gone to mope and grizzle and rage and emote a kind of cheek-stinging eau de sexism. Andy Gray and Richard Keys convicted on sound evidence | Barney Ronay
I signed the word for juice on his cheek, curving my thumb and forefinger into the shape of the letter C and tracing the movement slowly across his skin.
She cried, tears coursing down her cheeks, mingled with the rain.
Aaron and Adam had begun slapping each other on the cheek with one hand while the other punched the other one in the arm.
A tame rabbit was brought in with a large abscess about the size of an egg on its cheek.
Guidman," she says, as soon as I got my nose by the door-cheek, "it was an awsome peety that ye werena inby this afternoon. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
Its large, crescent-shaped eyes stand prominently atop the cheeks.
Tears welled up in his eyes, and Javan let them stream down his cheeks.
So back to the camp we made our way, with tongue in cheek, to put his proposals to the others. Work Camp 934 L
Her dimples were perfect, little dark cups in her cheeks. Times, Sunday Times
The tradition of the picturesque dates back to paintings and depictions from centuries earlier, which portrayed peasants and farmers as happy, apple-cheeked characters working in harmony with the land.
With rather thin lips and colorless cheeks, he bore the distinguished face of an ailing man.
Other fashion houses will be crying into their skinny lattes after seeing these two cheek to cheek. The Sun
She is slightly built and very pretty, with baby blue eyes and a wide, cheeky grin.
Maybe then I'll lose some of my blubber, 'cause really you didn't have much to lose, sweet cheeks.
A pinch of snuff may be placed between the cheek and the gum or inhaled into the nostrils.
Or did we perhaps witness a cheeky acknowledgement by the show's writing team that Tommy needs some character traits -- other than sterility and petulance, that is -- pronto? Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
She smacked me on the cheek.
Dreadful!" moaned Sister Ann. "Adnah goes about sighing all the day, and looks over-long in the mirror, and takes unseemly pains with her dressing, and does up her hair with flowers, and has feverishly pink cheeks, and likes to sit in a corner and brood, and takes long walks by herself, and especially, _especially_, seems fond of moonlight! The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.)
They slapped the cheeks of their buttocks and made facial parodies that I found embarrassing.
Involuntarily, she stepped in, biting the inside of her cheek apprehensively and casting her eyes over the rows of neatly aligned desks in the room.
He turned around to see me with kohl and mascara running down my cheeks.
In the bowl is a teaspoon of alum, for him to dip his finger into and touch onto the canker sore in his cheek. AUGUST HEAT
The New Testament injunctions to turn the other cheek and love thy neighbour were a great advance in civilisation.
Her usually rosy cheeks were now pinched and deathly pale.
Tears rolled down her cheeks, but her face remained calmed and her eyes were still fixed upon Alex's.
There were about a dozen blue-cheeked bee-eaters, a common babbler and the ubiquitous white-cheeked bulbuls.
Her cheek came to rest against my shoulder.
Their cheeks are gemmed with tears lit pink in the coming sun.
Pre-wedding nerves can sometimes cause a groom to have a total sense of humour failure when a harmless little prank - shaving his eyebrows, say, or tattooing his cheeks - is played on him.
I daur ye, limmers that ye are, to name sic a word at my door-cheek! The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Inside Lord 100, Cris Cheek was rattling through a complex history of performance-based poetry in England in the 70s, and on the screen in front of us flashed many slides of old mimeoed programs of great, if transient events. Archive 2008-10-01
The birds were carolling in full chorus and the eastern sky was mother-of-pearl flushing to pink, like a maiden's cheek in a Disney movie. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Juniper whiled many a day away in her sitting room, speaking to none, playing absently with the pale rose petals, as soft as the skin of a newborn's cheek.
One of the chauffeurs, an elderly, apple-cheeked man, had been the Forrest coachman. DARE CALL IT TREASON
Like a great child — slim within his arm, her cheek pressed to his, her dark earlock tickling his neck! Swan Song
THIS cheeky giraffe looks like it's longing to get some food and drink down its neck. The Sun
She winced painfully as a burning sensation spread across her cheek, and jerked her hand away from her face.
She pecked his cheek.
He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile. Kiss & Break Up
Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead.
His cheeks were colorless and the sweat trickled from his brow.
But I am thankful to live in times when men no longer have the temptation to write so as to call blushes on women’s cheeks, and would shame to whisper wicked allusions to honest boys. Roundabout Papers
Along the way he identified a particular type of smile that engages both the zygomatic major and the orbicularis oculi — muscles that raise the corners of the mouth and cheeks, respectively.
He was a little gentleman, very polite and kind but he also had a cheeky sense of humour. The Sun
She turned her head away, the tears beginning to trace paths through the thin layer of sand coating her cheeks.
He was red-cheeked with rage.
I had to grin, she looked kind of cute with red cheeks, shoveling food in her mouth while hugging herself and desperately trying to avoid my gaze.
He's got more cheekbone than Snoop, bloodshot and rheumy eyes, and he's wearing a scruffy black overcoat and woolly hat.
He became visibly annoyed when we offered him what was less obeisance than he expected and demanded and soon walked off with flaming cheeks, leaving us to the ministrations of his staff.
She could feel the burning heat creeping up her neck and building up on her cheeks painfully.
All that water you downed hydrates your skin, making your cheeks rosy and eyes bright - bonus!
Sweep on the base colour with a powder brush, blending outwards, then take a good-quality blusher brush with domed bristles try the Body Shop or Mac and grin insincerely so cheeks fatten in the middle. Beauty: Blushers
I have been in politics a while - not long enough, obviously - but I have been in politics a while and I have seen some examples of impertinence, cheek, and gall, but that last speech beats them all.
It sure didn't take new Portland coach Mo Cheeks long to pick up the company line on resident cuckoo Rasheed Wallace.
The stupor becomes rapidly more marked, the eyes become puffy and swollen with excessive lacrimation, so that the tears run from the internal canthus of the eye over the cheeks and may blister the skin in their course. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
Isabella's cheeks heightened in color, but the blond man did not take any notice.
You could draw a line of descent from that cheeky 17th-century image straight to the saucy postcards of contemporary Blackpool. Times, Sunday Times
The injured party sustained a cut above the eyebrow and bruising to the cheek.
A 15-year-old girl would be tattooed on the cheeks when she had mastered the art of weaving.
Moving up his cheek, she could feel some rough stubble of his unshaven face.
Of course I had to study the photos to check out all of the features, and I noticed that there appears to be something interesting about the cheekpiece of that stock.
She didn't realize that he was noticing the greenish bruises that still covered her cheeks.
The empress dowager looked up, the tears beginning to course down those flawless cheeks.
Mackenzie didn't say anything and just blushed, his cheeks burning scarlet.
Erica pleaded, tears streaming from her closed eyes, making thin watery tracks down her pale cheeks.
The word dyed Julia's cheeks crimson, and for the long hour that they lingered over their tea she seemed to Jim more charming than he had ever found her before. The Story of Julia Page
blubber cheeks
Last year, he was photographed on holiday with chubby cheeks and a paunch spilling over his belt. Times, Sunday Times
A droplet of water splattered on an extension in the wall to his left, the drop splattering on his cheek.
He smiled, sensing an odd happiness welling up in her, even though tears began to roll down her cheeks.
He looked at me for a moment, his face contorted with pain, and reached out to touch my cheek.
Even the most silly distorted fact, tongue-in-cheek headline or top-spinned newspaper tales concerning Hibs put this awkward customer on the warpath.
Is such footwear now trendy or is this some kind of tongue-in-cheek statement from the pocket-sized sheila?
He patted the man roughly on the cheek and took a step back, directing his next comment to the guards.
She slapped him on his wounded cheek, bloodying her hand.
I notice his erect bearing, his poker face, only his moving cheek muscles betray that this man is under great tension.
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He was stout, well past middle age, and his round cheeks were pink in the winter air as though they had just been shaved.
Peachy tones look great on most complexions (or dab a bronzy shade on eyelids, cheekbones and lips), while a frosty white tone adds instant sexiness to darker complexions.
She stroked my hair and wiped a teardrop away from my cheek.
Finding our way back home, chilled to the bone, our cheeks and noses flushed from the fresh air, to find a pot of hot coffee and a warm apple tart on the table. Jamie Schler: Apple Clafoutis: A Recipe for Autumn
The six Yoruba markings (three on each cheek), and the ten Fon markings (two on each cheek, temples, and forehead) are readily discernible.
I would relish the opportunity, as I placed my cross on the ballot paper, to think of wiping the permanently smug, self-satisfied smirk from his arrogant, squirrel-cheeked, toffee-nosed features.
The larl stroked my cheek with his great, smooth paw, the ivory claws hooded but quivering slightly, as if about to awake. Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
The cheeky thieves replaced the photos with a Dot Cotton ashtray.
Ryder frowned at the new title but knew it was probably for the best, he loosed his grip and kissed her cheek ‘Its ok, now, change into this dress.’
There is likewise more or less headache, neuralgia, giddiness, hebetude (state of mild stupidity), dejection, confusion of the senses, skin disease, acne rosacea (scarlet redness of the nose and cheeks), eczema, etc. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
She had a small mouth and round pink cheeks.
I knew that when he said that my face went more colorless than it already is except for red across my cheeks.
In the third movement, Haitink's lucid communication of the music's textural contrasts made it a joy to listen to, and the violins’ cheeky acciaccaturas tinkled wholeheartedly from their instruments; the finale was brisk, with almost maniacal handfuls of semiquavers, and the trumpets were on top form.
The hollows beneath his cheekbones showed his stress.
Isabella's cheeks heightened in color, but the blond man did not take any notice.
A puff of smoke from behind a distant rock, the boom of a jezail, and Desmond fell beside the Boy, stunned by a well-aimed shot on the edge of the cheek-bone, the slug glancing off perilously close to the right eye. Captain Desmond, V.C.
For 18 months, he pinched cheeks, bowled with oranges in the aisles of his campaign plane, and playacted flight attendant. Going After Gore
That child is a damn sight too cheeky.
Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks.
Revlon Skin Brightening powder dusted lightly over your decollete and cheekbones should be lovely, and an eyelash curler and waterproof brown mascara will keep your lashes visible and unsmeared by tears of joy. Wedding Make-Up: Pastors Can Help!
Yet inserting a cheeky clause had fleetingly crossed his mind. Times, Sunday Times
She could feel his breath on her cheek, and smell the faint warm scent of his skin.
Fever flushed his cheeks.
In addition to caressing her slim body like another layer of skin, the teddy is made of a warm rose-colored silk that brings out some much-needed extra color in her cheeks.
Sorrowful tears slid down her cheeks and splotched the words of the paper.
he gave her cheek a playful squeeze
Then time passed and the colour drained from both cheeks and scoreboard. Times, Sunday Times
She gave her aunt a quick peck on the cheek.
‘You look beautiful,’ he gave me a hug and bussed my cheek.
This shadows and hollows the cheek for that slimline look. The Sun
A gentle touch on her cheek, then her arm.
In case you ever have a problem identifying rodents again, hamsters are cute and stuff food into their cheeks.
I don't seem to find it at all difficult to work up an enthusiasm for being outdoors, wrapped up all snug and cosy, rosy cheeked and huffing great breath-clouds into the frosty air.
Texas, greets all of his players before a game with a peck on the cheek and preaches a creed of brotherly love in the locker room. Times, Sunday Times
I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye- for- an- eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a man who won't hit back. You kill my dog, you better hide your cat. Muhammad Ali
Her cheeks felt hot with embarrassment, but when she looked at her new husband, she saw that his face only glowed with his love for her.
As I turn the other cheek the pillager has raped my daughters and my wife. Crime, culpability and punishment
The sound reverberated around the room, and her fingermarks stood out in the red imposed on her brother's cheek.
Her eyelashes are almost as light as her hair, and I can see a sprinkling of tiny freckles on her nose and cheeks.
Her face seemed thinner, the high cheekbones more prominent somehow.
Meanwhile, his foot tapped, his eyes closed tight, and his thick cheeks ballooned with air to refill the bladder.
Symptoms of rosacea include skin redness and pimples on the nose, chin, cheeks or forehead.
A spider the size of her thumbnail dropped past her in the gloom, its legs brushing her cheek.
Slice the cheeks off the mango, dice and season with lime juice. Times, Sunday Times
Since it was a political junket, I'd say its quite cheeky for him to claim himself a former astronaut, but then again I don't think you'd want to 'disqualify' all Payload Specialists from being called astronauts. Is Senator Bill Nelson an Astronaut? - NASA Watch
Finally she brushed past us toward the office, her cheek bright red.
A rosy blush was used on her cheeks and a pretty pink gloss brushed across her lips. The Sun
The female is paler and lacks the grey crown, white cheeks, black bib and eye stripe and chestnut brown nape, but has a straw coloured stripe behind the eye.
Yes, I am cheeky, but so far we have relied heavily on the good people of Bolton and they have never let us down.
Its face was chalk white with lurid spots of rouge on the cheekbones. TALES OF THE CITY
And all through this, his breath came in even puffs against my cheek.
He grinned cheekily at her, giving her yet another wink before he rolled off the bed, coming up to stand directly in front of her, not even a whole inch separating them this time.
Another 16 per cent prefer a continental peck on the cheek. The Sun
Ariel tried to control the embarrassed flush that rose in her cheeks.
The tears spilled over and started to run down her cheeks.
He was such a lovely, cheeky chap.
Listen, son; I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone.
Or, you know, cover it up with a skirt that actually reaches below the cheeks.
She sketched the lines of his cheekbones and carefully shaded in the delicate curve of his upper lip.
My arm muscles were cramped up and felt like they were made of lead, my eyes were swelling and my cheeks felt puffy and warm.
She put her arm round his neck, touching the side of his cheek and her fingertips stuck to its surface.
'No doubt he'll give me the chance to fight him again,' he jibed, tongue in cheek.
He smiled gently and touched her cheek in a strangely intimate gesture. CONFESSIONAL
Taking his right glove off he placed a finger on her cheek and wiped away the dirt that was there.
Perhaps she was waiting to feel the heat of the sun's rays against her cheeks. The Broken God
Cheekily, and undetected, he repeatedly stole a few inches by placing the ball outside the arc every time he took a corner kick.
He raised his head to look at her, meeting her eyes and giving her a sly smile, causing a faint blush to appear on her cheeks.
One had a cut above his cheekbone like an old duelling scar. SKORPION'S DEATH
The Arsenal star played a neat one-two with Rafael Van der Vaart before cheekily nutmegging keeper Hamidou. HomePage - The Sun
A head with rosy cheeks, tousled hair, and flashing glasses suddenly appeared before me.
An angry flush rose to her cheeks as she stared up into those gray eyes. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
He had high cheekbones and did not have a weak chin.
Just draw a diagonal line under your cheekbones and blend. Times, Sunday Times
He stifled a groan and touched her cheek, soft and flushed with sleep.
We think of the slave-boys looking very clean and good, like those cherubs with red cheeks and tow-colored hair on Christmas cards.
His cheeks were smeared with blood from his palms, two crimson marks like war paint. MINUTES TO BURN
As the glasses clinked and the people chatted about cheeky Cabernets and perfect pinotages, representatives of the wine producers waited anxiously to be put to the test.
You're kidding," I said, pushing a chocolate-covered nougat to the recesses of my cheek, where it bulged uncomfortably. THE SEASON OF LILLIAN DAWES
I looked up trying to hear the message, I felt a cold, clammy hand touch my cheek.
The forehead is shorter, the cheeks puffier. Times, Sunday Times
Her cheeks were flushed with excitement and a speckled dove with an injured leg perched on her shoulder. Times, Sunday Times

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