ruddy
Example Sentences
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Training her sights on a ruddy Sean Penn, Glaser remarked on Hollywood’s obsession with looking younger.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
That makes “Folktales” decidedly more powdery than densely packed — it’s all ruddy cheeks, slo-mo camaraderie and the healing power of steering a dog sled through breathtaking terrain.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025
His clean-shaven face is ruddy and, excepting a divot between his eyebrows, unwrinkled.
From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2023
The mineral cave decor — epsomite, mirabilite, sulfate — rusts into the ruddy orange of iron oxide, the deep black of manganese.
From Salon • Oct. 7, 2023
Charles, beside me, stood out sharp and almost hyper-realistic with his ruddy cheeks and labored breaths but further down, Henry had become a wraith, his large form light and strangely insubstantial in the mist.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing ruddy
List 7
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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