rouging

present participle of rouge

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rouging
Verb
  • And Prince William would have been forgiven for blushing when Kate pointedly replied that the poster had in fact shown the TV hunk from a famous Levi advert.
    Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The kid wore birthday glasses and shook his head at each shot, blushing.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The front lawn falls steeply away from the house and on down to the fence, a garden overgrown with reddening watsonias.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Visible light has been shown to trigger erythema, or skin reddening, in lighter skin.
    Andrea Muraskin, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Nixon’s professed and late-blooming concern for safeguarding the rights of criminal defendants might be a bit hard to swallow; these were, after all, the Watergate burglars.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Dramatic ball skirts blooming with color and texture were styled with simple silk Ts and cotton shirts.
    Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • In offseason videos, though, he’s been flying through the air and flushing down ferocious dunks, so the athleticism looks to be back.
    Stan Son, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Carter said discolored water may be caused by routine maintenance flushing, changes in plumbing, water main breaks or similar events.
    Karl Schneider, IndyStar, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And the extreme pressure and friction of the move compresses the air molecules in front of Starship, creating a glowing plasma that is the signature of the stretch of flight known as reentry.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Each of these creatures of light multiplied into subqueries and side queries, a glowing menagerie of exotic life-forms crisscrossing the void, their wakes and ripples gradually illuminating the entirety of the submarine cave.
    Big Think, Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Rouging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rouging. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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