blood-red

How To Use blood-red In A Sentence

• The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. was foretold by soothsayers when the moon turned blood-red a few days earlier.
• Maybe a gift of a blood-red steed is a coded message to go to Hell. Periods of rain today, highs in the mid-forties
• pyrope," the deeper and richer tints being designated "carbuncle," from the Latin _carbunculus_, a little coal, because when this beautiful variety of the "noble" garnet is held up between the eyes and the sun, it is no longer a deep, blood-red, but has exactly the appearance of a small piece of live or glowing coal, the scarlet portion of its colour-mixture being particularly evident. The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
• A clean cut in a tree trunk begins to ooze a blood-red sap, which Maya healers call K'ik'-te. On the Healer's Path
• The image has a washed-out, filtered tonality offset by Hong's striking - if not disturbing - hand-painted washes of blood-red ink.
• Huge blood-red pods loaded with beans drooped from branches. Small Factories Take Root in Africa
• Dry, shady spots beneath trees: Ground covers such as common periwinkle (vinca or "myrtle," if kept well-watered initially), blood-red hardy geranium, variegated Solomon's seal, hosta, lamium, lily-of-the-valley and pachysandra. HeraldTimesOnline.com
• Their linings were tainted a blood-red hue - a fork of lightning flashed every now and then.
• Her blood-red lips and hooded eyes, her large hands firmly grasping the wheel, all convey a woman in control of her destiny.
• The term scarlet as employed in the Old Testament was used to designate the blood-red color procured from an insect somewhat resembling cochineal, found in great quantities in Armenia and other eastern countries. Forty Centuries of Ink