How to Use cheek in a Sentence

cheek

1 of 2 noun

• He kissed her on the cheek.
• He's got a cheek ignoring us like that.
• Dickie plants a kiss on Tom’s cheek when the song ends.
  — Hazlitt, 28 Feb. 2024
• So far, just hand holding on walks and a good-night kiss on the cheek.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
• Next would be the powder, then lipstick on the cheeks and on her lips.
  — Lyn Slater, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Mar. 2024
• Joseph and Mary flirt, hold hands, embrace, kiss on the cheek and, in one scene, briefly kiss on the lips.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• So far, just hand holding on walks and a goodnight kiss on the cheek.
  — Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2024
• Whether young man or mom, the gesture puts the palm of his or her right hand up against the head, cupping the cheek.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2024
• This nifty stick adds a flush of color to your cheeks, eyelids, and lips.
  — Talia Ergas, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2023
• Of course, the bronzed vibes continued on Bieber's warm, glowy cheeks.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 14 Sep. 2023
• The women all share the same rosy cheeks and they're blessed with clear skin, Howell said.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2023
• The kids were thrilled and their teacher had tears running down her cheeks.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Feb. 2024
• Use chocolate to draw mouth, eyebrows, and a scar on one cheek.
  — Beth Branch, Country Living, 27 July 2023
• As the guest of honor, I was instructed to cut off the cheeks and pass them to the other guests.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
• Next, make sure the brush reaches the cheek, tongue, and chewing surfaces of each tooth.
  — Chaunie Brusie, Rn, Parents, 24 Oct. 2023
• It can also be used for a reviving pop of color on the eyes and the cheeks.
  — Jenny Berg, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
• Kravitz shared a photo of him and their daughter Zoë each kissing Bonet on the cheek.
  — Jolene Latimer, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• The pink flush on her cheeks looked identical in color to her glossy lips.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 29 Sep. 2023
• The video shows the boy approaching the Dalai Lama, who is seen asking the boy to kiss him first on the cheek, and then kisses him on the mouth.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 10 Apr. 2023
• These lip and cheek cream products are tiny enough to fit in you purse and add the prettiest pop of color to the face.
  — Meaghan Kenny, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Dec. 2023
• His face: the deep lines in his forehead and cheeks had a look of violence about them, more like wounds than like the marks of age.
  — Mary Gaitskill, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• The 6-year-old girl was wounded in the cheek, and her father was shot, WBTV reported.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2023
• At the end of the reception, Scorsese and De Niro gave each other kisses on the cheek.
  — Vulture, 8 June 2023
• His father’s cheeks were now newsprint-colored, his eyes red and bulging.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
• Applying blush to the apples of the cheeks and across the nose is the key to recreating the viral TikTok trend.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 31 Oct. 2023
• Another pic was snapped as Scruggs, 34, kissed Ryver on the cheek while Kennedy made a shocked face.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2023
• But Parker, looking stern as tears streamed down his cheeks, walked out of the courtroom with his aunt.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 23 Mar. 2024
• What does this mean for our lips, our cheeks, and our approach to injectables?
  — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 24 Mar. 2023
• My jaw, cheeks, and neck looked much more toned, and my features started to look more pronounced.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 16 Oct. 2023
• In one photo, Bronze looks shocked as his mom snaps his photo, cake smudged across his cheeks.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 28 Nov. 2023

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cheek

2 of 2 verb

• Meris Carmichael wants to lure the rain to Arizona in a tongue-and-cheek way.
  — Felicia Fonseca, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• Some of the old folks dance cheek to cheek, barely moving to the rhythm.
  — Kate Siber, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
• The twins relax and hug each other, cheek pressed to cheek.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• But the very sound of them gives the flavor of the patchwork of small-town suburbs that sit cheek to cheek in the sprawl.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• Some testing sites may ask you to swab your nose or cheek yourself, or spit into a tube.
  — Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
• Still, just as the Bears offense readied to head back on the field with Daniel at the controls, Nagy and Trubisky stood cheek to cheek on the sidelines.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• There is, of course, a German word for it: Hamsterkäufe, meaning to shop like a nervous, bulging-cheeked hamster.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2020
• Wright, a cheerful, apple-cheeked, forty-two-year-old professor with wispy brown hair, is at the vanguard of a new movement in SETI.
  — Adam Mann, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2019
• People were seen dining al fresco and sunbathing, cheek to jowl.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2021
• Latin America: Also cheek-kiss people, but sometimes just the one cheek.
  — Emily Flake, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• Hides from cows, which are lower quality than those of steers, have fallen to only about 5% of the value of all byproducts—worth less than tongues and cheek meat.
  — Lydia Mulvany, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2019
• Hides from cows, which are lower quality than those of steers, have fallen to only about 5% of the value of all byproducts — worth less than tongues and cheek meat.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• On the deck of his trawler, Adam Stanwood—a barrel-chested, apple-cheeked fisherman in his 40s—uncovers a black plastic tray about two-and-a-half feet by one-and-a-half.
  — National Geographic, 2 June 2017
• Called Casting Couch, the piece depicts a paunchy, stubble-cheeked Weinstein seated on a chaise lounge in silk pajamas.
  — Gwynedd Stuart, Los Angeles Magazine, 4 Apr. 2018
• On the deck of his trawler, Adam Stanwood—a barrel-chested, apple-cheeked fisherman in his 40s—uncovers a black plastic tray about two-and-a-half feet by one-and-a-half.
  — National Geographic, 2 June 2017
• The soldiers were hollow-cheeked and drenched in sweat despite the sub-zero temperatures and the bitter wind in Paju, just 10 miles from South Korea's border with the North.
  — Mac William Bishop, NBC News, 26 Jan. 2018
• For instance, one pink-cheeked, shy student at Maurice Wollin excels in reading but recently failed a math test.
  — Kristina Rizga, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2019
• Learn about the history of some of your favorite brands, what makes champagne, well, champagne, and leave a little rosy-cheeked after a delightful tasting.
  — Christina Liao, Vogue, 31 July 2017
• Lydia was played by Winona Ryder, then an apple-cheeked 17-year-old in one of her first-ever movie roles, the beginning of Ryder's reign as the poster child of offbeat rebellion.
  — Nojan Aminosharei, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Apr. 2019
• The department posted photos of the small brown and black mammal crouching fearfully in a mesh crate after capture, with bloody wounds on its nose, cheek and forehead.
  — Tiffini Theisen, orlandosentinel.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• Three years later, with apartment buildings now cheek-by-jowl with the club, those same residents, joined by dozens more, raised concerns in emails and public meetings about potential noise from the roof.
  — Alan Neuhauser, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
• The collection, available on Amazon, features eyeliner, lip glazes, cheek and lip tints, highlighter, and a set of mini lipsticks.
  — Christina Butan, PEOPLE.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• Patient, steadfast Inti, round faced and dimple cheeked, rebuke to the macho South American stereotype.
  — Mathina Calliope, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2019
• Because many of the questions will be subjective, the researchers think the city should push the envelope and take hair or fingernail samples and saliva or cheek swabs from participants to measure their levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
  — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 1 Nov. 2021
• Meris Carmichael wants to lure the rain to Arizona in a tongue-and-cheek way.
  — Felicia Fonseca, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2019
• Some of the old folks dance cheek to cheek, barely moving to the rhythm.
  — Kate Siber, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2017
• The twins relax and hug each other, cheek pressed to cheek.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• But the very sound of them gives the flavor of the patchwork of small-town suburbs that sit cheek to cheek in the sprawl.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2019
• Some testing sites may ask you to swab your nose or cheek yourself, or spit into a tube.
  — Sarah Krouse, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
• Still, just as the Bears offense readied to head back on the field with Daniel at the controls, Nagy and Trubisky stood cheek to cheek on the sidelines.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 18 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 3 May 2024