aflush

Example Sentences

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Faces are constantly aflush with anger, ardor, embarrassment.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was a quick, frightened gasp, and the girl's face, all aflush with a new, sweet fearfulness and wondering confusion, vanished behind a ponderous swinging door.

From Average Jones by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

All aflush with offence, Lubov tossed her head nervously, and flinging her work aside, cast a glance at her father; and, taking up the socks again, she bent her head still lower over them.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman

The first showy splendour of sunset had passed; but the upper sky was still aflush with colour.

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

High in the hills the solitary thrush Tunes magically his music of fine dreams, In briary dells, by boulder-broken streams; And wide and far on nebulous fields aflush The mellow morning gleams.

From Lyrics of Earth by Lampman, Archibald