suffusion

Example Sentences

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The stage is set with clean-edged forms, suffusions of blue and nearly single-point perspectives that glorify the skies, swimming pools, architecture and lawns of Los Angeles.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2017

They also have a kinship with the suffusions of shape and hue in the glorious later work of J.M.W.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2013

"If the juice to the bigness of a pin's head be dropped into the eye in the morning in bed, it takes away outward specks, and stops incipient suffusions."

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by Fernie, William Thomas

In another moment the "beloved square" was filled with crowds of the Cherokees and their huddling shadows, all a medley in the last red suffusions of the sinking sun.

From The Frontiersmen by Murfree, Mary Noailles

In the intestinal form the submucous and subperitoneal tissues show alterations from a few hemorrhagic spots to large bloody suffusions, or even gelatinous infiltrations.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry