red - use in sentences
Adjective modifier
- dark: The second category of energizing colors is the brighter, but not dark, reds.
Converse of object
- turn: Within the blink of an eye, a single gunshot was fired and our screen had turned blood red.
Adjective modifier
- bright: When the leaves are young they are bright red, as they mature they turn green.
- ruby: Tasting Note: The wine is a deep ruby red with garnet reflections.
- cherry: It's a deep cherry red with little sparkles, almost pearlescent but not really.
- glowing: It is unique in its color which is a glowing deep maroon red.
- deep: Evidence of the damage can still be seen on the lower stonework, which was stained deep red by the fire.
Modifies a noun
- tape: Business prepares to face new swathe of red tape.
- squirrel: Target: No loss of red squirrels in existing key habitat.
- wine: At dinner, I was offered a red wine colored liquid.
- herring: The industry's campaign against 1 % charge caps is a red herring in the debate about the savings gap.
- brick: He covered the whole palace with a new facing of red brick.
- deer: N.B. The above cooking time is for red deer.
Modifying Another Word
- infra: Now I just need to find a way to locate my phone under infra red light.
Used with adjective complement
- glow: Wait until the charcoal is glowing red, with a powdery gray surface, before you start to cook.
- paint: Seating is provided by what looks like wooden Thonet chairs, painted red.
- turn: During the race, when the running line turns red, wait a moment before letting off the gas.
- flush: Telling him to shut it, she flushes red, tho whether from embarrassment or guilt I can't tell.
Preposition: in
- tooth: The reality now is that nature is " red in tooth and claw " .
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