cheek

sunken

After months of illness, her sunken cheeks showed how much weight she had lost.

tear-stained, wet

The child's tear-stained cheeks showed how upset she had been during the movie.

brush, dab (at), stroke, touch

He gently stroked his daughter's cheek while she slept peacefully in her crib.

give (sb), proffer

The child gave her grandmother a kiss on the cheek when she arrived at the house.

blaze, burn, flame, grow hot, redden

Her cheeks reddened as she realized everyone was looking at her.

across sb's/the ~

The boxer's glove connected across his opponent's cheek with a loud smack.

against sb's ~

The child pressed her cheek against her mother's shoulder while they danced together.

down sb's ~

Paint dripped down his cheek as he worked on the mural.

in sb's ~s

The little boy had red paint all over his cheeks after art class.

on sb's/the ~

The doctor gently placed a stethoscope on her cheek to check her temperature.

bring the colour (back) to your cheeks, the colour floods/rises/rushes to your cheeks

When she heard the compliment, colour rushed to her cheeks and she smiled shyly.

a kiss/peck on the cheek

His grandmother planted a kiss on his cheek before he left for school.

awful, bare-faced, colossal

She had the colossal cheek to criticize my work after submitting her own full of mistakes.

bleeding

The child fell off his bike and arrived home with a bleeding cheek that needed cleaning.

bloody

He got a bloody cheek from the fight and had to go to the hospital.

have

She had the cheek to complain about the food after she arrived an hour late.

Of all the cheek!/What (a) cheek!

She didn't even apologize after breaking your vase—what a cheek!