Sentence examples for cheek- from inspiring English sources

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My cheek nestled against the scratch of paper.

The same was true of his classic picture of Seberg kissing Belmondo on the cheek.

In between, she observed that the Conservative's one nation was a bit of a cheek coming from a party that had won the election by dividing the country into several nations.

It was written with tongue firmly in cheek, yet this situation did indeed seem to irk Genoa's directors.

Another of those affected, Stephen Reid, 27, said: "The first thing I knew about it was screams of other people who were closer to the spray, and then my eyes started to burn … I remember going to my girlfriend's later that day and giving her a hug as I told her what had happened and her cheek started burning".

The first edition of Charlie Hebdo since nine members of staff were murdered by terrorist gunmen last week appears to turn the other cheek.

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10 10 founder and Age of Stupid film-maker Franny Armstrong said tonightCurtis had written what she thought was "a funny and satirical tongue-in-cheek little film in the over-the-top style of Monty Python or South Park".

The journalist, now 33, penned a tongue-in-cheek open letter to Edward Snowden on his arrival in Moscow – an extended welcome assuring him that the security services were monitoring every conversation leaving "nothing here in Russia to expose".

The broadcasters' tongue-in-cheek tweeted assessment included the apology, the suggestion the home goalkeeper Kieren Westwood might have "fallen asleep" when he was replaced by Shay Given, and that the Republic's former non-league player, Harry Arter, would be "used to this standard".

The arts critic Bruce Dessau certainly didn't think so, blogging on the subject under the headline Russell Howard 1, Stewart Lee 0. (Lee has mocked Howard, tongue-in-cheek or otherwise, in his live act).

In 2009, when the Cork county goalkeeper Donal Og Cusack came out as gay, the novelist Colm Tóibín hailed him as "the first gay hurler since Cúchulainn", a tongue-in-cheek reference to the Iron Age mythological warrior-hero whose feats with stick and ball make him the precursor of today's hurlers.

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