How To Use Flushed In A Sentence

A pickup truck was circling the pond, which flushed some birds out of the reeds and into the open water.
His face flushed with anger.
It was all I could do to keep from laughing as I discussed filling in forms and so on, whilst loos flushed all around me.
A little later than usual, he arrived, freshly showered and a little flushed from exercise.
The discovery of the ruins came after a mudslide flushed out a deep trench nearly two-kilometers long and 25-meters wide through rice fields late last month.

Behind him hurried a younger, comelier man, carefully clad in motor costume, who bent above the girl with passionate solicitude and gazed into her staring eyes until they narrowed and dropped and her face flushed deeper and deeper crimson. DARKWATER
He was tall with a shock of dark brown hair, flushed schoolboyish cheeks, and a dashing, dimpled smile. Kiss & Break Up
Her face was flushed after her run.
When they are flushed down the toilet, they dissolve into microscopic particles.
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
I flushed and shook her hand gingerly, hoping I wasn't perspiring too heavily.
You and your ilk are being flushed down the toilet bowl of history.
Fever flushed his cheeks.
On his abrupt and unexpected apparition, Diana paled and Ruth flushed slightly, whereupon Sir Rowland might have bethought him, had he been book-learned, of the axiom, "Amour qui rougit, fleurette; amour qui plit, drame du coeur. Mistress Wilding
At last she came rushing in, looking breathless and flushed.
We're all flushed with excitement over blush once again. Times, Sunday Times
He stifled a groan and touched her cheek, soft and flushed with sleep.
Her cheeks were flushed with excitement and a speckled dove with an injured leg perched on her shoulder. Times, Sunday Times
Even at such a moment he was not unable to notice how pretty she looked, with a flushed face and shining eyes.
As he stood there, turned from me, with his hat off, and his neck painfully flushed under the sharp outcurve of his dark head, a feeling of pity surged up in me, as if I had taken an unfair advantage. The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays
His laughter eventually subsided into amused chuckles, which flushed vermillion into her cheeks.
The publican, stout and flushed, was a figure from central casting. Times, Sunday Times
Her cheeks are flushed the fluorescent melon orange that also glimmers on her lower lip.
The dogs made killings, but also flushed the foxes out of their woodland hide-aways and dispersed them into other areas.
He lowered his head on to the table; the marble felt fresh in contact with his flushed skin.
They emptied the bottle of brandy so both were feeling flushed but relaxed.
The man's face flushed slightly with anger.
The product uses many of the well-known diaper materials, fluffed pulp and super absorbent poly-acrylate, but the difference is that the plastic shell is reusable while the soiled pad can be flushed. Richard Seireeni: How the Green Community is Giving Birth to New Brands
The Drano, however, managed to get into the tub as well as in the drain and when I flushed 15 minutes later with hot water, the water in the tub was sudsing.
One lady in her early fifties was flushed with delight. Times, Sunday Times
The patients, every one of them as though they were in a conspiracy, first belaud her for their miraculous cure, go into raptures over her medical skill, and abuse allopath doctors, then when she is flushed with excitement, begin holding forth on their needs. The Schoolmaster
Face flushed, smile lavish, he rose to help her unpack the breakfast and partook with no little appetite. EVERVILLE
The mason flushed the joint with mortar.
His face flushed scarlet and he sat bolt upright. The Secret Garden
Britain is seething with rage, he went on, his face flushed. Times, Sunday Times
Tears pricked her eyes, her cheeks looked flushed, and she hung up the phone without another word.
Keleus thrust his spear into the earth and looked upon the dying sky, flushed in crimson, and he whispered unto the winds.
She stumbled over her words as her cheeks flushed a dark pink of embarrassment.
By day four, the face flushed and the first painful lesions appeared - not on the surface of the skin, but in the mouth, throat and nasal passages.
She came in, her cheeks flushed, her eyes bright, with an excited dubitation. 'way Down In Lonesome Cove 1895
MPs had called for action against the tiny beads, which are flushed into the ocean and damage marine life. Times, Sunday Times
I have no doubt the two party crashers at my lek were the same two I had flushed off their pole four miles back. Grouse Diary Entry
His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptivethat hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much. Chapter 3
He seemed a few years older than Pavel, had light brown eyes and sandy golden hair, and his cheeks were flushed from the run in the cold air.
I almost started to question his shoe color preference when I realized his eyes were glassy, his face was flushed, and he seemed distracted.
As I recounted the joke to her, she flushed pink with pleasure and smiled shyly. Times, Sunday Times
In the evening you can see locals strolling down the street in their cotton robes and wooden slippers, returning home with faces flushed from their hot dips.
Instead, I flushed the toilet and opened the door just wide enough to slip through the gap.
Dawn too was a light show with the sky flushed into pastel shades.
From the twinned exertions of skating and explaining, his skin is flushed, and his eyes are bright. THE SAVAGE GIRL
By contrast, he chose to portray the character as ailing: cadaverously thin and pale with flushed cheeks and clawlike fingers.
The redhead Susanna, scarlet-lipped, rose-flushed, and wrinkle-necked, contrasts with the starveling look of the foremost elder.
We believe this process, which enables a portion of human remains to be flushed down a drain, to be undignified," said Patrick McGee, a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester.
Her sad face flushed sensitively as tears sprang to her eyes.
After stopping for a quick pint, they arrived home flushed and happy.
She flushed the toilet, and we all three stood there crowded into the little bathroom and watched the water swirl and kerplunk down the drainpipe and gurgle as the bowl and tank refilled themselves. "The Misses Moses," from my collection Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (Norton 2010)
The door opened and a flushed Georgiana stood in front of him.
He has brown hair and flushed cheeks and a face at once mischievous and ethereal. Times, Sunday Times
Looking perhaps even more pewtyflushed in her cherry - derry padouasoys, girdle and braces by the halfmoon and Seven Finnegans Wake
Her face was flushed with excitement.
He spoke the word "mountebank" sneeringly, and John flushed. John of the Woods
Toilets could not be flushed during the water crisis.
His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive — that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much. The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
You're the guy who flushed his whole fucking bankroll on one hand, Mike.
He took the squirrel and flushed it into the toilet bowl.
The road drains here were flushed out not too long ago, and the drainage system out on the fens seems more than able to cope with the rain we've had and a lot more.
The Surf City contamination is almost certainly the result of urban run-off flushed into storm drains.
His face was flushed, and he had dark rings below the reddened eyes that were sunk deep into his face.
Red patches flushed up Brent's cheeks as if death the invisible man was dabbing rouge there. THE OPEN DOOR
I know I might've looked a little unnerving, with my messy ponytail, slightly flushed cheeks from jogging and somewhat disarrayed clothes, but I was told I had a really friendly face!
He flushed Cochrane from the woods like a frightened covey of Mississippi quail.
As I heard "The Voice that breathed o'er Eden" and saw the bride of twenty-five advance up the aisle to meet the bridegroom of forty-five awaiting her deeply flushed, in a distorted white waistcoat -- I had mercilessly alluded to his white waistcoat as an error of judgment -- I gave myself up for lost; _and I was lost_. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy
An inexorable patience he seemed to find it: he flushed crimson with rage and the sense of his unhandsomeness, and flung her away. A passionate pilgrim
Fear of regional war has flushed normally reticent governments into openly declaring their allegiances. Times, Sunday Times
His face flushed scarlet and he sat bolt upright. The Secret Garden
The voice called out from the kitchen, the toilet flushed.
One theory has it that the military did not surround and arrest them but instead flushed them out of the bush to run for cover and to disband and disperse.
Inside this outer cover, you insert a disposable, decomposable diaper refill that can be flushed down the toilet no diaper pail necessary. Spotlight on ‘hybrid’ diapers
Vass regarded her flushed face, then let his eyes drift slowly down the length of her slender, dressing-gown-clad figure.
A nightshirt, or indeed any other kind of nightwear, was not only unnecessary but unwelcome as well when it came between her and the sensual warmth of Guard's skin, the touch of his hands and mouth, when-Shakily Rosy tried to banish her wantonly erotic thoughts, but as she glanced in the mirror she suspected that her flushed face and shining eyes gave her away. Unwanted Wedding
By blending the colour into skin it gives a naturally flushed finish without making her look like she's wearing too much make-up. The Sun
All seedlings were dormant in December and had flushed in May.
I couldn't look at her face, flushed with complete bewilderment and even some inexplicable anger.
The next year, hunting the same bottom, another bird (maybe the same one; who knows?) flushed from the very same hole. Uncategorized Blog Posts
It increases your confidence, as well as opening small blood vessels, making you feel flushed and warm.
I remember the good old days on the Pullman sleepers when you could see the ties speeding by underneath you when you flushed the toilet.
Her skin flushed, her eyes widened, her shoulders rolled. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » April : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Her brothers would tease her lightly, affectionately, and she would only stare, flushed and thick-witted. FAMILY PICTURES
I felt my flushed cheek with my hand.
The angry, flushed face contrasted to the bright, light coloured walls of the large, minimal room.
Nest revisits were minimized to reduce disturbance, and incubating females were not purposely flushed from nests.
Harriet leaned comfortably over the stonework, looking at it all, and said at length, "If I lived here, with this garden, I should never want to go anywhere else so long as I lived," and then flushed pinkly in case Sieske misunderstood. Politics 101
Booze also makes the tiny blood vessels in the skin widen, making the skin look flushed. The Sun
Her cheeks were flushed with excitement and a speckled dove with an injured leg perched on her shoulder. Times, Sunday Times
The investigation found five cases of mishandling the sacred book, but no evidence that personnel flushed a copy down a toilet.
By 315 AD, it is said that Rome as a city had 144 public toilets which were flushed clean by running water.
Hot embarrassment flushed her cheeks as she threw back the quilt, taking care not to crease it.
If not flushed regularly the bacteria slimes and manganic oxide sediments accumulate in the pipes.
Rita was calm under pressure, never looking flushed or hassled.
Sea Island cotton -- distinct from inland cotton -- was grown in levied plots at the shore, flushed of salt ingeniously by diked fresh water creeks. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
His face flushed from glimmering blue-white to a deathly pale grey, like a dying flower watched in time-lapse photography.
Booze also makes the tiny blood vessels in the skin widen, making the skin look flushed. The Sun
MPs had called for action against the tiny beads, which are flushed into the ocean and damage marine life. Times, Sunday Times
Her tiny feet were wrapped in a woollen bundle, and rested on hot bricks, and her aching head was tied up in red flannel bandages that smelled of brandy; she had a mustard plaster on her chest, a cayenne pepper 'gargle' for her throat, and a cup of hot ginger tea stood at her elbow; her pretty nose was swollen out of shape, her bright eyes were red and inflamed, and little blisters had broken out all over those kissable lips; a very damp white handkerchief lay in her lap, and two great tears, that it had not yet wiped away, ran down her flushed cheeks. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
The swart face of the older half-breed flushed angrily, as he drew himself up and promised in good, round terms that he would travel his leader off his legs, and would then be delighted to plant him in the snow. TO THE MAN ON THE TRAIL
The islands, flushed with the fresh growth of a Northern spring, and the newly formed shore-line where the capricious Missouri had recently undermined a stretch of bank, gave character to the scene, as did the delicately virent leaves of swirling willow, quaking aspens and cottonwoods loosened from their place on shore to float in midstream. A Man of Two Countries
the fox was flushed from its cover
His face was neither flushed nor drawn, and he showed no sign of dissipation. DANSVILLE
Fats and grease congeal and harden in cold water which can then be flushed through the system.
Just then the door swings wide and his wife and daughter rush in, flushed, laden with eggs from the henhouse.
Her face flushed rosily in the light of the roaring fire as he— Much Ado About Marriage
Her cheeks flushed, but it had to be the fresh wind, they both concluded.
This procedure flushed the solution throughout the heart muscle, even changing the heart's color as it rushed through the veins.
After being run to ground by hounds the fox was flushed out of its earth by a terrier and shot.
Still flushed with anger, I rose from the bench, placing my hands flat against the table and so hard that I was sure I was leaving imprints on the wooden surface.
Her long hair was in a bedraggled mess and her normally fair skin was flushed red.
She rotates on the spot, eyes wild, face flushed from the ovens heat. Excerpt: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Margot's very blue eyes flashed at this piece of impudence and she flushed. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
Henry had flushed bright red, his face radiating a heat that could have melted Emmenthal. RESCUING ROSE
Fairweather suggests this may point towards incoming prisoners changing the type of drugs they use from cannabis, which leaves traces in the body for a long time, to heroin, which is quickly flushed from the body.
But the microbeads do not biodegrade so when flushed away, trillions end up in the marine food chain. The Sun
Have you flushed the toilet?
Have a drink of cool or iced water if you are flushed, it may help to settle it down.
The first signs of heat exhaustion for children are when they become flushed, crabby, and don't feel well.
There was a flushed look on his face, as if the thrill of danger and adventure was something he dearly missed.
Yesterday on Boing Boing Gadget, it was review Thursday and we flushed our systems clear: Joel posted a thoughtful review of the Android G1 and horrible hair review of an iPod dock while Beschizza reviewed the self-moving chess set he always wanted as a youth. Boing Boing
After Cal-OSHA's findings, the building owner flushed and chlorinated the water system.
Fear of regional war has flushed normally reticent governments into openly declaring their allegiances. Times, Sunday Times
Turning around, she looked at my flushed face with dismay.
Not exactly,' Ted's cheeks flushed a sharp bullfinch pink as he turned towards the door and shoved the key into the lock. BEHINDLINGS
Sportsman he was, and rake and gambler, as were we all; and I have seen him often overflushed with wine, but never heard from his lips a blasphemy or foul jest, never a word unworthy of clean lips and the clean heart he carried with him to his grave. The Reckoning
Her face was slightly flushed, the royal blue of her gown heightening the fairness of her skin and the glow of love in her eyes.
Cassidy laughed and blushed embarrassedly and her cheeks flushed with a pretty pink glow ‘Man listen to me going on.’
To avoid accumulation of nutrients in the growth media, the sand was flushed once every week with water.
It is heated and cooled using the power from the nearby lake and solar panels on the roof, and the toilets are flushed using rainwater.
The guard's ruddy face flushed and he looked away.
As I recounted the joke to her, she flushed pink with pleasure and smiled shyly. Times, Sunday Times
It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen multi-stemmed shrub with lance shaped leaves that are purplish when young and flushed with colour in autumn.
Medicines should never be disposed of with other household waste, for safety reasons, or flushed down the toilet, for environmental reasons.
Jasmin's breathing was shallow and her face flushed.
Clare’s cheeks were flushed; there was febrility in her whole manner and appearance. Over the River
His dark blonde hair was soaked with sweat and his face was flushed and ruddy.
The young clerk flushed with pleasure at this chorus of praise, rude and indiscriminate indeed, and yet so much heartier and less grudging than any which he had ever heard from the critical brother Jerome, or the short-spoken Abbot. The White Company
Otherwise our first recollection would doubtless be of the grimly flushed large face of a resolute parent, bending hotly downward in effort to make both ends meet while we wambled and waggled in innocent, maddening sport. Pipefuls
We're all flushed with excitement over blush once again. Times, Sunday Times
Her slightly rouged cheeks flushed and her soft skin was covered with goosebumps.
She was looking on with bated breath, leaning slightly forward, so keen was her interest, one hand pressed to her breast, her cheek flushed, and in her eyes a great and amazed admiration. Chapter 42
These toxins prevent the body absorbing nutrients from food, and poison it by retaining waste matter which should have been ‘flushed’ away.
His small face flushed with delight, his finger tracing the print of the title.
My face flushed as I quietly and quickly slipped my hands under the kitchen table.
She flushed bright red and looked attentively at the two books Cermit had bought from a peddler who'd come through Whitherby. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
Her face is flushed, her eyes are glassy sometimes.
This time, he was peculiarly flushed, leading a colleague to speculate whether he was on something.
The entire mosque is flushed deep red, its minarets striped with red sandstone and white marble like giant sticks of candy.
Females also were flushed from nests periodically to check nest contents.
Perry's cheeks flushed slightly pink, and he followed Jake onto the bus, shutting the door.
My face feels really flushed and hot from the central heating, and I'm mainly thinking about that.
The girl's forehead was flushed with fever.
Instead, I flushed the toilet and opened the door just wide enough to slip through the gap.
Vicki's face must have flushed vermillion as she stammered, ‘Uh, er, n-no.’
Nothing contributes more to perception of unclean restrooms than an unflushed urinal.
My cheeks were rouged to look flushed and my eyes made up for a doe-eyed look.
I rose from my chair, and I could feel my heat was flushed with anger.
If we ever had any moral authority, it has been officially flushed down the toilet.
Her face was flushed after her run.
His temperature leaps by bounds, his cheeks are flushed crimson, his pulse beats fast, and his eyes wear an altogether unearthly aspect.
His flushed face reminded me of the more beautiful kind of consumptive -- that hectic beauty of which we used to hear so much. Science Fiction Hall of Fame
flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment
Her forehead was flushed with fever.
All this assumes we get the single engine fkn f35 before. .say … 2015, which IMHO, i think will not happen and a fkn truck load of cash will have been flushed down the fkn dunny. Cheeseburger Gothic » Prepping for Pucka.
People bustled by, mouths trailing vapor, faces flushed and bitten by cold. SPIDERTOWN
The flowers are large and wallflower red on the outside, the inner colour being soft orange flushed with red towards the tip, fading to a paler, softer throat.
She flushed with anger.
The roseate hue could symbolize the feminine and/or could evoke intimate or flushed skin.
Civilization and the current messiah of its time, Jesus, such as Akhenaton, such as Zoraster, shall be flushed, useless, into the abyss of nihil. Opposing same-sex marriage isn’t about hatred, not at all!
We unexpectedly flushed a wisp of snipe.
Before sunrise, we approached the colony and flushed the birds into the nets.
The Birds of the Western Palearctic sounds a typically cautious note, recording a flushed female woodcock “calling and apparently struggling to prop young between feet with depressed tail.” A Year on the Wing
The very fabric of modern society rent asunder, all we hold dear torn to shreds and flushed down the lavatory.
Agitatedly, it changed its spots from orange to blue to green and, finally, flushed perfectly purple.
Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.
Members of the Castle Point Bowls Club have been having to make do with a pavilion that is ‘falling apart’ and a centre where the women's toilet has to be flushed with buckets of water.
Each petal is flushed white, as if the colour is bleaching out of the blooms. Times, Sunday Times
They let me stumble about on the trails for a time before my clumsiness flushed a covey of doves from their rest.
She stooped to look at what Andrew had been writing, but had only scanned a few lines when the toilet flushed and Andrew emerged from the bathroom.
His face was flushed with indescribable rage, his teeth gnashing with his eyes bulging.
Simmons, the Finance fire-eater, flushed angrily and snapped, "They'll never get an army across the Sinai. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
For the first time, Elle flushed under his gaze.
Modern cloth nappies fasten with poppers or Velcro, need only a 60 degree wash in the machine and are very easy to use as any solid matter is flushed away.
Long dark lashes fell gently onto her flushed cheeks.
You walk away from this book feeling flushed and a bit bruised. Times, Sunday Times
Apparently Roly stopped taking his drugs, flushed them down the toilet, and begged Alex to help him get out of that place.
Her cheeks were flushed with excitement and a speckled dove with an injured leg perched on her shoulder. Times, Sunday Times
Flushed from passion and eager to engage in pillow talk, a woman turns to tell her beloved how much she adores him - and he's out for the count.
Made from an organic compound called cellulose, it is easily flushed out by the body and can stop hunger for a few hours. New Pill to Control Hunger | Impact Lab
When I donned hat and coat to take the trash out to the bins I came back indoors all flushed and happy.
Each petal is flushed white, as if the colour is bleaching out of the blooms. Times, Sunday Times
A woodcock flushed from its cover.
Through the heads about him be could see her standing a little in advance of the others, her head turned to one side, really in the natural attitude of violin-playing, but, as it seemed to him, in a kind of ravishment of listening -- cheeks flushed, eyes shining, and the right arm and high-curved wrist managing the bow with a grace born of knowledge and fine training. Robert Elsmere
Install half-flush cisterns in toilets so that the amount of water flushed down the drain can be reduced.

How To Use Flushed In A Sentence

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