rosy-cheeked
Example Sentences
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We’re a long way from Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post portraits of doting parents taking their rosy-cheeked children to the avuncular family doctor for back-to-school checkups.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026
At the end of a gravel road, a few children played outdoors, rosy-cheeked in the bitter cold, one wearing a Spiderman woolly hat.
From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026
I can't recall the title, but it had a green plastic spiral binding and a paperback cover with a rosy-cheeked grandmother in a frilled apron on the front.
From Salon • Feb. 13, 2023
With a rosy-cheeked grin he said, “What’s left of it.”
From New York Times • Dec. 12, 2022
This is why our children are rosy-cheeked and clever.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
