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.