blood-red
blood-red
Definition
blood·-red (-red′)
adjective
- stained red with blood
- having the deep-red color of blood
blood-red
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- moon: Of course, next day's newspapers were full of photos of a clear blood-red moon, presumably taken nowhere near the Camberley area.
- pouch: In los angeles blood-red velvet pouch shut out entirely of the new.
- sky: A deep, blood-red sky like the breaking of the darkest dawn hung above a desolate landscape.
- sun: At 1545 GMT there was a 5-minute glimpse of a blood-red sun setting under the cloud sheet.
- wine: They flew over this house of mine, This made me spill my blood-red wine.
- eye: The troll jabs the knife in your direction, his blood-red eyes dripping with greed.
Used with adjective complement
- turn: The Royal Astronomical Society has predicted that the moon is to turn blood-red during a lunar eclipse above British skies tonight.
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