red-blooded
Example Sentences
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As a red-blooded, flag-waving, apple-pie-consuming American, I am feeling so grateful for “Dying for Sex,” easily the best show of the year, along with “The Lowdown,” “Untamed” and a handful of others.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
Endgame is a much less red-blooded piece of writing.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2023
With its red-blooded hooks and startlingly forward depictions of expressing need, “Reckless,” released through the Nashville indie label Thirty Tigers, caught on with a broad cross-section of fans.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2023
This taco possesses the three traits every red-blooded barhopper craves: a gooey, crunchy, salty bite.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2020
If you take a bunch of practically grown, red-blooded daughters to Africa, don’t you think at least some of them are going to marry or what have you, and end up staying?
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
