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Examples

  • The pink-faced man and your statistics tell me so.

    Megabus: You've redeemed thyself 2011

  • Lindsey Graham is just another pink-faced, yellow-bellied HYPOCRITE who only remains in power due to the overwhelming majority of white-trash redneck voters in SC (the same ones with the Confederate flags in their front yards and the plastic Jesuses on their mantles).

    Reliable Sources: Journos spar over Obama presser question 2009

  • It reminded him of a ski lodge in Colorado they had once stayed in; he kept expecting pink-faced strangers to walk in and dust snow off their shoulders.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • Evelyn Greatorex had never before been spoken to in this manner and gasped into a pink-faced silence.

    The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010

  • It reminded him of a ski lodge in Colorado they had once stayed in; he kept expecting pink-faced strangers to walk in and dust snow off their shoulders.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • By the time they arrived at the hospital they were fifteen minutes late, and Lizzie was a wreck—pink-faced, frizzy-haired, with something unpleasant that she hoped was gum and feared was worse clinging to the sole of her shoe.

    Fly Away Home Jennifer Weiner 2010

  • We did not want them to imagine that we had any but worldly business, so Father Théodore threw dust in their eyes with an account of his pink-faced sheep.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • It reminded him of a ski lodge in Colorado they had once stayed in; he kept expecting pink-faced strangers to walk in and dust snow off their shoulders.

    Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010

  • We did not want them to imagine that we had any but worldly business, so Father Théodore threw dust in their eyes with an account of his pink-faced sheep.

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • Must have been forty pink-faced longboarders bobbing out there, all gringos.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

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