How To Use Red-faced In A Sentence

Sweating and red-faced, he'd stood in the middle of the hall, the tea slopping over the marble in a red tide and the newspaper rapidly disintegrating in the currents.
At a desk to the very side of the room, a very overweight, red-faced man was shuffling through some files and stuffing them into Manila folders.
One character grew particularly animated, becoming red-faced as he struggled to contain the words that burst forth, recalling Offaly teams from bygone eras who had fought so bravely with their scant resources. FIRECRACKER
Red-faced officials ordered an investigation into the cause of the accident.
Swigging something from plastic cups, they grew red-faced and raucous, hiccupping and screeching. Times, Sunday Times

She was accompanied by an equally red-faced and only slightly less stout younger woman, similarly attired. IN LOVE AND WAR
Using a procedure they will not make public so as not to give the game away to local ne'er-do-wells, they then freed the red-faced guard from the rear section of the van.
Fortunately for a red-faced Basham, former Shelbourne striker Foran slammed his shot straight at the legs of Alan Fettis.
Television cameras exposed the errors, viewers were aghast and the sport's officials were left red-faced.
Between rubber-necking the shiny, red-faced clientele around the dining room, "picnicking" on the potato salad, and chattering away about the unraveling of events of the evening, I was tempted to press the tiny little doorbell that is attached to the edge of every table in the restaurant. Archive 2007-02-01
Red-faced environment chiefs today pledged there will be no repeat of the Hampshire scandal which saw tons of recyclable waste dumped in rubbish tips.
Overhead, a passing troop of red-faced mangabeys hooted in derision before crashing off through the canopy, while a nine-inch millipede with a body like stainless steel crawled across my hand and into the leaf litter.
A red-faced couple were forced to drive to Hadleigh fire station after the handcuffs they had put on got stuck.
A nervy opening and some heat-fuelled laxidasical moments in the second-half aside, there was never any real danger of the City leaving bathed in sun Church Road red-faced.
The other one was young, chubby, red-faced, with short red hair and looked embarrassed.
The red-faced Prince appeared in his element despite the watching media crews as he worked up a sweat running around the pitch with about a dozen fellow players.
‘This administration knew about this at least three weeks ago,’ a red-faced, angry Dean raged at reporters.
This was all just prelude to the cloud of monkeys that not long after passed like a vast red-faced brownness through our little patch of blue sky.
All, however, will be red-faced and sweaty from a surprisingly vigorous workout. Hooping.org | Blog | Just Hoop It Sacramento Style
Edgardo, red-faced, furious, retreated, met the manager coming across the dining room. Shortcut Man
Billy, when the dismal thing had dragged its way through the final note, sat "down front," crying softly in the semi-darkness while she was waiting for Alice Greggory to "run it through just once more" with a pair of tired-faced, fluffy-skirted fairies who could _not_ learn that a duet meant a _duet_ -- not two solos, independently hurried or retarded as one's fancy for the moment dictated. Miss Billy's Decision
Our revelation will leave the basque-wearing drama teacher red-faced. The Sun
Now red-faced party officials are facing a hefty bill to refund all the postage charges. The Sun
I returned to the kitchen red-faced and so angry my hands shook as I put the groceries away.
A red-faced dad accidentally threw away his wife's family heirlooms and found them after hours rummaging through a rubbish dump!
Whenever he felt ill from any cause he became red-faced.
Red-faced council officers claim the bungle occurred only because they were trying to save taxpayers’ money.
A plump, red-faced man is demanding a third helping of sherry trifle. The Sun
Brought together for a red-faced reunion, they relive their cringeworthy moments and reflect on how the experience changed their lives. Times, Sunday Times
His long screaming charge ended with him red-faced, gasping for breath - and with Viola Angotti pinned against the garbage cans.
Probably no historical image would be harder to dislodge from the collective memory than that of the teak-headed, red-faced, white-moustached general, his tactics derived from long-ago cavalry maneuvers, sitting in a château headquarters well behind the lines as he orders waves of infantry across minefields and through barbed wire, forcing them like the Light Brigade itself “into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell,” and into the waiting German machine guns. The Pity of War
Red-faced security chiefs have now discovered that a special receipt book - the only record that the purse had ever existed - has also disappeared.
When he returned, red-faced, he reported that she had done the same thing to him.
Alec dropped his hand, red-faced, while Simon grinned into his undrunk coffee. Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series
Then, grunting with effort, they lunge furiously, colliding with resounding thwacks, red-faced and panting.
THE image of a red-faced judge caught in scandalous circumstances in full wig and breeches is the stuff of music hall comedy. The Sun
Worse than this, the woman lived in a bawdyhouse downtown, with a coarse, red-faced Irishman named Connor, who was the boss of the loading-gang outside, and would make free with the girls as they went to and from their work. The Jungle
Apoplexy, whose adjective form, apoplectic, came to mean “red-faced with rage,” is now called “stroke” like apoplexy, from the Greek plessien, “to strike” because this third largest killer in the United States was nothing to treat lightly. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
She uncovered the babe's face and showed it me, a hearty girl, red-faced, strong-fingered.
Since they have never bothered to go and see what it is like, or to read the Burns Report, they cling to laughable nineteenth-century pictures of red-faced squires quaffing sherries handed to them by forelock-tugging serfs.
I can just hear his French words echoing across the sandy beach, translating themselves in midair before reaching the Drunk Boat bar on the boardwalk above, near to which a red-faced tourist stands hesitant. Jean-Marc
Also, to one side, limped a score or more of foot-sore, yoke-galled, skeleton oxen, that ever paused to nip at the occasional tufts of withered grass, and that ever were prodded on by the tired-faced youths who herded them. Chapter 12
He tilted his head, his belled hat jingling faintly, when the king just sputtered, red-faced, instead of answering his question.
Invariably, we were buffeted by a stiff wind which left you red-faced but invigorated.
was red-faced with anger
He tries for another angle but I have gone, red-faced and tripping over the edge of the step machine as I retreat, escaping to the white towels and curious-smelling talc in the changing rooms.
Tourists spotted the blunder and red-faced officials changed the flag. The Sun
That was Thomas, I realised, looking over the plump, red-faced infant spread out uncomfortably all over my chair.
A red-faced Bobby would then run around clutching his shorts. After four successive collisions he suggested I did the lifting.
No longer will some red-faced tweedy type, shotgun under the arm, be likely to block their path and order them: ‘Get orf my land!’
Several steps above Freddy stood their quarry, red-faced and half-dressed, and behind him other men crowded around the stairs to see what was happening. How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
I tucked the wrapper in my pants pocket and set out on my morning walk around the lake, half-hoping to meet two red-faced people emerging from their altered reality. The Duck, the Clock and the Condom
But if you visualise Owen as one of those red-faced rustics going about his business with a straw in his mouth, you are well off track.
By game time, fans were a bellicose, red-faced, shouting mob.
They wheeled, graceful as gulls, whoever their partners-elegant, hatchet-faced dagoes in mangas, red-faced sports sodden on Taos whisky or vino, bearded miners in slouch hats and red shirts, or great clumsy buckskin brigadeers who whooped and yelled and capered like Indians. Isabelle
Granted, I was a little red-faced myself when they introduced me to the Chinese dictator The staff told me his name rhymes with that tasty chicken dish, Kung Pow. The Obama Diaries
“Youth and comeliness were gone, but the foppishness remained, and the red-faced man, with false teeth and the voice of a worn-out actor had his scanty grey hair curled.” Louisa May Alcott
If you're a red-faced hockey dad in Massachusetts, a high-strung cheerleading mom in Texas or some other species of overzealous sports parent, be warned.
Dandy and I saw a friendly, rich, pliable sort of red-faced American approaching, with a smile on his face. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
Using a procedure they will not make public so as not to give the game away to local ne'er-do-wells, they then freed the red-faced guard from the rear section of the van.
He definitely needs services," the psychologist, a red-faced man with round glasses and a penchant for mumbling in jargon, decided. "We just don't know what.
I was a loud child, red-faced and bolshy. Times, Sunday Times
A red-faced Mr Rose, 48, admitted there had been a mix-up and that he felt embarrassed about the situation.
A quick skinny-dip left two drunks red-faced when children nicked their clothes and ran off.
The incidents left officials at both airlines red-faced in issuing apologies.
Each time he'd forget the sequence and need to be reminded; each time it left him red-faced and tired.
It sees the countryside as a large playground-museum, filled with red-faced Poujadiste farmers, cruel fox-hunting squires and rubicund peasants, over which its supporters are encouraged to roam at will. Archive 2008-02-10
Red-faced and screaming, he threatened, ‘If I ever hear you've told your goombahs back in New Jersey that you did beat Olsen, I'll personally fly to Jersey and rip your tongue out of your head.’
But yesterday, red-faced officials admitted whole swathes were lifted word for word grammatical slips and all from a student thesis.
`Uh, it's probably shallow enough to walk in," said Pete, red-faced, remembering his experience at the abalone pier. THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Bequest of Benjamin Altman 'Young Man and Woman in an Inn ("Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart")' (1623) The selection spans most of Hals's career, beginning with the bawdy "Merrymakers at Shrovetide" (c. 1616-17), a densely packed image of revelers that pits a red-faced toper against a young blonde whose flushed cheeks accord nicely with her coral jewelry and elegant, lace-trimmed red dress. Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
This remote region holds several Albertine Rift endemic species such as Yellow-eyed Black Flycatcher, Kivu Ground Thrush and Red-faced Woodland Warbler, along with a wealth of francolins, bee-eaters, honeyguides, sunbirds, robin-chats, akalats, and with luck the striking Ruwenzori Turaco.
red-faced and violent
Dandy and I saw a friendly, rich, pliable sort of red-faced American approaching, with a smile on his face. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
We were surrounded by hungry, sweaty, red-faced men finishing their lunch, not very reassuring.
Some of the more common birds are the northern pygmy-owl, olive warbler, red-faced warbler, hepatic tanager, mountain bluebird, pygmy nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch, Mexican junco, Steller's jay, red-shafted flicker and the Rocky Mountain sapsucker. Arizona-New Mexico Mountains Semidesert-Open Woodland - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
I'm totally impressed by the level of skill that's required and am red-faced at my lack of knowledge prior to Saturday.
Royal Mail bosses were left red-faced after two letters apologising about a customer's missing mail were lost in the post.
Built in the 19th Century, the crematorium is helping red-faced funeral directors tackle the problem of heavyweight clients' custom-built coffins.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Bequest of Benjamin Altman 'Young Man and Woman in an Inn ("Yonker Ramp and His Sweetheart")' (1623) The selection spans most of Hals's career, beginning with the bawdy "Merrymakers at Shrovetide" (c. 1616-17), a densely packed image of revelers that pits a red-faced toper against a young blonde whose flushed cheeks accord nicely with her coral jewelry and elegant, lace-trimmed red dress. Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
Red-faced environment chiefs today pledged there will be no repeat of the Hampshire scandal which saw tons of recyclable waste dumped in rubbish tips.
Police chiefs were red-faced yesterday after their road safety trailer rolled backwards down a hill and smashed into a shop.
It was neither the ane nor the ither, but a strong middle-aged, red-faced Heelandman, wi 'specks on, and wi' a kilt and a bannet, by a 'the world like my monkey's. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 275, September 29, 1827
As the red-faced Silkworm hurler raged at himself and the fates, the Typhoons broke through in the fourth inning, grouping two walks, a bunt single, a long fly ball to score a run, and a ringing double by Andy Sutherland that hit the BVD sign in right field on a bounce to score two more. DIAMOND RUBY
A plump, red-faced man is demanding a third helping of sherry trifle. The Sun
Sarah has emptied a bucket of blocks in front of the television and Ruth is on her back on the floor, red-faced, screaming.
A stranger may appear from nowhere to embrace you, leaving you red-faced.
If he is left for any length of time he gets red-faced and sweaty. Times, Sunday Times
There was a vociferous red-faced polyglot personal conductor in a pepper-and-salt suit, very long in the arms and legs and very active. Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells
It has also emerged that the cost of the huge bungle has risen still further, as red-faced officials have warned ministers that they are preparing to write off £14.4m paid out during the fiasco.
Finally, one rather rotund gentleman rose to his feet in red-faced exasperation. Christianity Today
He was drunk and lairy, red-faced and petulant.
That little red-faced rabble-rouser Sempeturn sitting on the Confalume Throne? VALENTINE PONTIFEX
Fastened up behind the barouche was a hamper of spacious dimensions -- one of those hampers which always awakens in a contemplative mind associations connected with cold fowls, tongues, and bottles of wine -- and on the box sat a fat and red-faced boy, in a state of somnolency, whom no speculative observer could have regarded for an instant without setting down as the official dispenser of the contents of the before-mentioned hamper, when the proper time for their consumption should arrive. The Pickwick Papers
But he was left red-faced after admitting he had never visited a foodbank. The Sun
He came over to me, red-faced, explained what had happened, apologised profusely, and went to fetch his manager.
Some of the more common birds are the northern pygmy-owl, olive warbler, red-faced warbler, hepatic tanager, mountain bluebird, pygmy nuthatch, white-breasted nuthatch, Mexican junco, Steller's jay, red-shafted flicker and the Rocky Mountain sapsucker. Arizona-New Mexico Mountains Semidesert-Open Woodland - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
I burst through the outer door, red-faced and sweating. Very chic.
And that is despite him being left red-faced last weekend. The Sun
But hey, the guy works at a gym, maybe he's learned to eroticize red-faced girls who are streaming with sweat.
As many as 4,000 of the 100,000 calls made each year are from red-faced motorists who left the keys in their cars.
A scientist… the one who gave me my steroid shots, if I remember rightly… appeared, red-faced and out of breath, his owlish glasses askew on his wrinkled face.
A wink and a one-liner instantly changed the dinner from a red-faced embarrassment to a conspiracy of fun.
But he was left very red-faced last summer when one of his daughters caught him on her mobile phone singing a U2 number. The Sun
The penitent hope their red-faced admissions of guilt will bring absolution, but can saying sorry really be enough to restore their credibility?
Brought together for a red-faced reunion, they relive their cringeworthy moments and reflect on how the experience changed their lives. Times, Sunday Times
How can they face themselves if the red-faced "rosbifs" win?
The slightly red-faced compère lifted one glamorous rose after another and grinned for the cameras.
Dandy and I saw a friendly, rich, pliable sort of red-faced American approaching, with a smile on his face. THE PRESIDENT'S CHILD
Now red-faced party officials are facing a hefty bill to refund all the postage charges. The Sun
He says it's no secret that the red-faced, spitting motormouth that Chris Matthews plays on TV is different from the real guy.
The red-faced anger was still there; the one that leads to tears and shouts, locked doors, “I hate you!” declarations throated from a voice that can’t quite absorb the world around her. The emotional range of a teaspoon. «
The last in the queue to shake his hand was a large, red-faced man of about his own age.
He was looking at an extremely bulky, red-faced woman, pushing a giant-sized trolley stuffed to overflowing with nothing but loaves of white, sliced bread.
A few minutes later he returned, red-faced, to check which wine I had ordered.
But he was left red-faced after admitting he had never visited a foodbank. The Sun
The ‘American Psycho’ star was left red-faced on the first day of filming when he ripped the figure-hugging outfit as he tried to squeeze into it.
Television cameras exposed the errors, viewers were aghast and the sport's officials were left red-faced.
The red-faced youth quickly dug into his pocket much to the amusement of the conductor.
And he was red-faced again yesterday when a guest on his TV show poked fun at the situation. The Sun
FEELING red-faced after a night out? The Sun
The red-faced young man stood up looking as if he had something in mind to do, and slapping the dust off his clothes picked up his yellow canvas bag.
John McCain is stomping around where ever it is that he stays in DC, kicking his wife, his campaign staff, raging red-faced at clouds and challengingthe sky to cut the horseshit or he'll kick it's ass. Election Central Saturday Roundup
Birds considered to be endangered or rare are Sri Lanka wood pigeon Columba torringtoni, green-billed coucal Centropus chlororhynchus, Sri Lanka white-headed starling Sturnus senex, Sri Lanka blue magpie Cissa ornata, and ashy-headed babbler Garrulax cinereifrons, all of which are endemic, and red-faced malkoha Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus. Sinharaja Forest Reserve, Sri Lanka
Any kind of goofing off, such as when her Dad and brother walked like cats through the parking lot of Marco's Pizzeria, sends her into a red-faced tizzy (the boy's practicing for performances of the musical Cats at the Asheville Arts Center, so this wasn't as weird as it sounds.) News
Mr. Thurston waved his hand appeasingly at the red-faced man, and turned to the girl. CHAPTER I

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