RED in a Sentence

Learn RED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
343 example sentences for RED, such as:
1. My bank account is in the red.
2. Maple leaves turn red in the autumn.
3. The artist has several tubes of red paint.
4. The plant has a beautiful bright red flower.
5. I'd feel like a sissy in those baggy red pants.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RED
red
 a.  characterized by violence or bloodshed
 n.  red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  It was part of the sun's red and of the pure glitter on the snow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
3  She set the lamp on the table, and he saw that it was carefully laid for supper, with fresh doughnuts, stewed blueberries and his favourite pickles in a dish of gay red glass.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  The shawl had slipped from her shoulders and was dragging at her down-trodden heels, and in her hands she carried the fragments of the red glass pickle-dish.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  A red sun stood over the grey rim of the fields, behind trees that looked black and brittle.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
6  She looked so small and pinched, in her poor dress, with the red scarf wound about her, and the cold light turning her paleness sallow, that Ethan stood before her without speaking.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
7  As they drove away the sun sank behind the hill and the pine-boles turned from red to grey.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
8  Under the open sky the light was still clear, with a reflection of cold red on the eastern hills.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  They looked out across the endless acres of Gerald O'Hara's newly plowed cotton fields toward the red horizon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Already the plowing was nearly finished, and the bloody glory of the sunset colored the fresh-cut furrows of red Georgia clay to even redder hues.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
11  The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
12  It was a savagely red land, blood-colored after rains, brick dust in droughts, the best cotton land in the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  At the sight of him, the Tarleton hounds rose up out of the red dust and stood waiting expectantly for their masters.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  I'd feel like a sissy in those baggy red pants.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
15  He backed his big red horse and then, putting spurs to his side, lifted him easily over the split rail fence into the soft field of Gerald O'Hara's plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
1  My bank account is in the red.
2  With a bright red face I was forced to admit that I had no real idea.
3  The taxi driver was obviously in the wrong in going ahead against the red light.
4  His sudden disappearance triggered a red alert among his friends.
5  The artist has several tubes of red paint.
6  Red sky at night shepherd's delight; red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning.
7  The little money that was available was tied up in bureaucratic red tape.
8  The plant has a beautiful bright red flower.
9  Because of all red tape at immigration I missed my connecting flight.
10  It was the sailors'first night ashore ; they painted the town red.
11  We'll give her some VIP treatment and roll out the red carpet.
12  I didn't expect to get the red carpet treatment.
13  He bought a model of a red London bus as a souvenir of his trip to London.
14  Maple leaves turn red in the autumn.
15  After only a short exposure to sunlight he began to turn red.