claret

How To Use claret In A Sentence

• They will drink their wretched heartless stuff, such as they call claret, or wine of Medoc, or Bordeaux, or what not, with no more meaning than sour rennet, stirred with the pulp from the cider press, and strained through the cap of our Betty. Lorna Doone
• True to form, the finished 2003 wines delivered record-breaking levels of tannin, sugar and alcohol; many châteaux have made clarets weighing in at 15 per cent-plus alcohol, as in Australia and California.
• We collapse in exhausted triumph with a glass of claret and a chunk of home-made cake. Times, Sunday Times
• Because of this fact alone I should not commend the diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret. Suburban Sketches
• The drink was the same fiery distillation that was known as claret, sherry, brandy, rum, whisky, or whatever else a role might call for. Hokas Pokas
• This chateau makes wine for Old World claret drinkers rather than for the powerful New World wine critic, Robert Parker.
• Alpha-naphthylamine, Bluish claret red; Reddish puce. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
• The training ground has been repainted, the traditional claret replaced with brighter and more cheerful colours.
• His nose changed from the natural copper hue which it had acquired from many a comfortable cup of claret or sack, into a palish brassy tint, and his teeth chattered with apprehension at the unveiled audacity of my proposal, which seemed to place the barefaced plunderer before him in full atrocity. Rob Roy
• Two or three cups of the stalks, with leaves put into a cup of wine, especially claret, are known to quicken the spirits, refresh and cheer the heart, and drive away melancholy.