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Example sentences for "rouged"

Lexicographically close words:
rouch; roue; rouers; roues; rouge; rough; roughage; roughed; roughen; roughened
  1. Irene's red-rouged lips could not pale, but at least her mouth was agape.

  2. If I add to the little list of her accomplishments that she rouged a little, I do not mean that there was any harm in it.

  3. Pale tunes irresolute And traceries of old sounds Blown from a rotted flute Mingle with noise of cymbals rouged with rust, Nor not strange forms and epicene Lie bleeding in the dust, Being wounded with wounds.

  4. The room was full of flowers, and Mabel, ready to go on, was having her pink toes rouged for her barefoot dance.

  5. There was the same monotonous sameness in the gaudy decorations and furnishings; the same hilarious crowd in the café downstairs; the same overdressed, over-rouged women in the elevator and halls.

  6. Most of them were coarse and vulgar-looking wantons, with rouged cheeks and pencilled eyebrows, but others seemed to be modest girls, refined and well bred.

  7. Her glossy black curls were a bit dishevelled, and the excitement of the night had added to the vivid colouring of her rouged lips and cheeks.

  8. The thin, hollow-cheeked faces that passed and repassed him, rouged and smiling, could not destroy in his mind the strength of the picture.

  9. She was a dainty, plump, small-boned creature with white, slightly rouged skin and tiny white hands.

  10. Every piece of silver in certain of the great establishments, or in smaller ones that are run like a great one, is never picked up by a servant except with a rouged chamois.

  11. Soft were those shades and lawns; sweet the hymns of Poetasters, the blandishments of high-rouged Graces: (See Memoires de Morellet.

  12. The old age in her pinched face, fighting with the rouged cheeks and the gaiety of her fanciful dress, was pitiful.

  13. It makes you look wonderfully young," he said, turning a critical eye, first upon the elegant gown of some soft pinky stuff in which his mother had arrayed herself, then upon the subtly rouged and powdered face above it.

  14. Madame Bonanni put one fat hand out from under the furs, and pressed a podgy finger to each eyelid in succession by way of stopping the very genuine tears that threatened her rouged cheeks with watery destruction.

  15. Her face was rouged and there were artificial shadows under her eyes.

  16. At the theatre we ought to forget, as much as possible, that the actors behind the footlights are rouged and obey the prompter's voice instead of the dictates of their own hearts.

  17. The poor wretch that crawls along the street, all rouged and decked out in finery not her own, is "a dashing Cyprian.

  18. Her attire was as flaunting as her air and her manner; she was rouged and beribboned.

  19. Madame d'Henin, though rouged the whole time with confusion, never ventured to address a word to me.

  20. He was a tall, spare man, with an affectation of Spartan austerity in his face and dress, and he smiled contemptuously on the rouged and bepatched men about him, as with his lovely daughter on his arm he advanced towards the King.

  21. They gave her a ringing shout of greeting as she passed by, oblivious of the sorrows of the highly rouged lady who raved before them.

  22. He closed his eyes as he listened, and a foolish smile of complacent and inexpressible satisfaction overspread his rouged and powdered face.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rouged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.