flushed

Then she lifts and lowers the weight very slowly until her cheeks are flushed pink.

But don’t count me among the teary-eyed hand-wringers who wonder how the country I love so much has been flushed down the toilet.

The rest ends up being incinerated, sent to landfills, or discarded on the landscape, where they are often flushed into rivers or out to sea.

The most visible sign of that mess comes after those loos have flushed.

“And I think Doc did a great job of getting in front of that and pumping some enthusiasm and optimism into the group. It was quick. They flushed it quickly.”