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How to use flushed in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Flushed means red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc. Example: “There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.”

Examples of flushed by meaning

adjectiveRed in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.

  • He was flushed; and when the heavy curtain blew out a little he turned and half-opened his eyes.1922, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob's Room

More sentences with flushed

  • There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.From the entry sewer
  • When I flushed the toilet, the plumbing backed up and burst.From the entry back up
  • The dogs flushed the deer from the woods.From the entry flush
  • A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth.From the entry flush
  • The army flushed out the enemy spy.From the entry flush out
  • The dogs flushed out some doves.From the entry flush out
  • Typically the "clean girl" makeup involves fluffy brows, dewy skin, flushed cheeks and glossy lips.2022 February 10, Emilie Eisenberg, “What is the 'clean girl aesthetic' and why is it all over my TikTok FYP?”, in The Tab, archived from…. From the entry clean girl
  • Ruth's radiantly happy face flushed again rosewise with pleasure and pride.2018, Don Eric Carrol, Pancho II, page 388. From the entry rosewise
  • Immediately, his face flushed: "How could Katy do that to Britney?2017 March 21, Danny Madion, “Pop music, sexuality and the gay duckling”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 5. From the entry shook
  • Like his son, he was flushed and sweating and clouded round with caustic steam.2012, Jessica Stirling, Shadows On The Shore, →ISBN. From the entry panhouse
  • We flushed a few more drunken buggers out for locking up, but no Black Bob.2004, Jan Needle, The spithead nymph, page 139. From the entry may've
  • She yiked and stood up abruptly, holding her fanny, her face flushed but still smiling.1996, William S. Slusher, Butcher of the Noble, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 266. From the entry yike
  • The cellulose and gel diaper stuffing is washed, shredded and flushed down the sewer.1990 January 25, “Procter & Gamble launches effort to recycle disposables”, in The Hamilton Spectator, page 24. From the entry diaper stuffing
  • There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.1969, Mario Puzo, The Godfather. From the entry derision
  • Routh has flushed out every john in which you’d be at all interested.1966, G. P. Putnam’s Sons, front and back flaps, in Jonathan Routh, Serena Stewart, The Better John Guide—Where to Go in New York, New…. From the entry johnless
  • Her face was flushed with the tingling effect of betel leaves.1958, R. K. Narayan, The Guide, Penguin, published 1988, page 194. From the entry betel
  • Charles Gantvoort's pale face flushed a little, and he cleared his throat embarrassedly.1931, Dashiell Hammett, The Glass Key. From the entry embarrassedly
  • The capataz of the batey gang, a tall flushed Jamaican negro, passed on a cantering white pony.1922, Joseph Hergesheimer, Cytherea. From the entry capataz
  • The otherwise unflappable woman was flushed with adrenaline.2023 October 22, HarryBlank, “Waiting to Happen”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 23 May 2024. From the entry unflappable
  • My face flushed hot as I looked around.2019, Malorie Blackman, Crossfire. From the entry go down like a cup of sick
  • Okay, I was right—a big old worm's crawling on your neck." She giggled again and pulled away a little, slightly flushed.2013, Hugh Gilmore, Last Night on the Gorilla Tour: A Novel, Philadelphia, P.A.: SoundStars Press, →ISBN, page 76. From the entry zamination
  • Your invitation could easily become an uninvite, and the work that you put in will be flushed down the drain.2012, Bob Oedy, Bigger Labor: A Crash Course for Construction Union Organizers. From the entry uninvite
  • A golden, crocusy line goes forth, and here a purple row of violets, flushed scarlet meets milky white.2010, Venantius Fortunatus, translated by Joseph Pucci, “To Radegund (d. 587) and/or to Agnes (d. no later than 589)”, in Poems to…. From the entry crocusy
  • "Where do you keep your horse?” Snakeroot flushed.2009, Jon Sharpe, Tucson Temptress. From the entry peeler
  • Unfortunately, 4 professional hydraulic workers were flushed away.2006 February, Wei-Hsien Teng, Ming-Hsi Hsu, Chung-Hsing Wu, Albert S. Chen, “Impact of Flood Disasters on Taiwan in the Last Quarter…. From the entry Sijhih
  • They fill your mouth with hot, spicy flavours or spiky textures, their leaves sometimes green, sometimes flushed with beetroot red.2001 August 12, Dan Pearson, “Turn over new leaves”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry beetroot red
  • Millroy often described his kidneys—how he flushed them out.1993, Paul Theroux, Millroy the Magician, page 61. From the entry sluice
  • As I topped the ridge I missed my first shot at a sharptail that flushed from a grassy dish.1980, Nebraskaland. From the entry dish
  • She flushed and began to run her calculator again.1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press. From the entry checker
  • When soiled the wadding should be flushed down the lavatory, the two layers rinsed and disposed of with the household refuse.1978, Equipment for the Disabled, volume 5, Oxford Regional Health Authority, page 11. From the entry shaped nappy
  • The web is filled with ground coffee, over-packaged and at the same time flushed with an inert gas.1977, Food Science and Technology Abstracts, volume 9, page 33. From the entry teabagger
  • The four pens included a 9-ft-wide manure washway which ran the length of the feed bunk and was flushed daily.1968, California Agriculture - Volume 22, page 6. From the entry washway
  • He cleaned up the basin and flushed the lathery, hairy bits of toilet paper down the water closet.1957, James Agee, A Death in the Family, New York: Bantam, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 26. From the entry lathery
  • They flushed hotly as they met by chance and their hands touched in the slack clasp of an ebbed friendship.1917 January, Leonora Orem Rocheleau, “The Great Equation”, in The Mother's Magazine, volume 12, number 1, page 41. From the entry ebbed
  • The Professor, with his face flushed, his nostrils dilated, and his beard bristling, was now in a proper Berserk mood.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘‘Question!’’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC, page 76. From the entry berserk
  • Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him.1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 3, in Anne of Avonlea. From the entry temper
  • Unfortunately people coming back down the beach flushed the small shorb flock but they flew to the golf course and stuck around a bit.2023 September 24, Mary Walsh, “Archived copy”, in Macaulay Library, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2024. From the entry shorb
  • No sooner had I spoken than a covey of perhaps twenty birds flushed wild ahead of us and disappeared into the pine woods.1977 November, Pete McLain, “Your Great Outdoors—Northeast: Hunting Northern Bobwhite Quail”, in Field & Stream, volume LXXXII, number 7…. From the entry covey
  • And as the eye rested on him, he too filled me with pity and terror, for his map was flushed and his manner distraught.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X. From the entry map

Meaning of flushed

  1. adjective Red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.

Full definition of flushed

Questions about flushed in a sentence

How do you use flushed in a sentence?
Flushed is used as an adjective. For example: “There was a blockage in the sewer after an item of clothing was flushed down the toilet.”
What is a short sentence with flushed?
“The dogs flushed out some doves.”
What does flushed mean?
Flushed means red in the face because of embarrassment, exertion, etc.

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