redden - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • skin: The first signs of the disease are reddening of the skin followed by the erruption of spots to form a rash.
  • face: A distinctive symptom was the ' three o'clock flush ' - a reddening of the face experienced by many of the workers.

Object

  • skin: His beard, which grew in white patches over reddened skin, made him look like a dog with mange.
  • sky: Searchlights made effective patterns as they stabbed the reddened sky with their beams, which swept back and forth in wide arcs.
  • eye: With the bottom of his palm he rubbed his reddening eyes.
  • face: The wind is slamming the velcro of my anorak collar into my reddening face.
  • area: Early signs are abnormally reddened areas, which look inflamed.
  • stone: Morehouse mentions the finding of small stones reddened by the action of fire.

Subject

  • fire: Walls and floors were blackened or reddened by fire and every room was filled with fallen bricks.

Modifying Another Word

  • slightly: Sometimes the skin will just be slightly reddened without obvious lesions.
  • highly: However, pillars adopt the colors of the incident sunlight which may be highly reddened.
  • then: Infinite space reddens then cools silently at the heart of the rose.
  • not: There is no sensation at all, and the treatment area does not redden or become hot.

Preposition: by

  • fire: Walls and floors were blackened or reddened by fire and every room was filled with fallen bricks.

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