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. You can't wear the red pants.
2. The red flag flaps in the wind.
3. I swapped my red scarf for her blue one.
4. It's the house whose door's painted red.
5. The male bird has a red spot on its beak.

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 Meanings and Examples of RED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
red
 a.  being or having skin of a coppery hue
 n.  a color whose hue resembles that of blood or of the ruby
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
14  I'd feel like a sissy in those baggy red pants.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence: (133 in 9 pages)
16  Then the rain came and the red flag went up to signal a halt.
17  You can't wear the red pants.
18  The red horse walks away from the white one.
19  It's the house whose door's painted red.
20  It's an Australian company whose logo features a red kangaroo.
21  The red flag flaps in the wind.
22  Beyond the red end of the visible light spectrum is infrared.
23  The male bird has a red spot on its beak.
24  I swapped my red scarf for her blue one.
25  The stern was embellished with carvings in red and blue.
26  The woman put forward a red silk as well as a blue one for our inspection.
27  The colours of the spectrum - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet - can be seen in a rainbow.
28  They fronted the building with red bricks.
29  He drove through the red lights in an attempt to shake off the police car that was chasing him.
30  The flag was red, with a large white circle in the center.