red-blooded
Example Sentences
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If this is your first taste of the tale, give yourself over to the prickly but tender relationship between prisoners Luis and Valentin, played by feisty new talent Tonatiuh and a red-blooded Diego Luna.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
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
A judge in Montreal has ruled that “flipping the proverbial bird is a God-given, Charter-enshrined right that belongs to every red-blooded Canadian.”
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2023
At a P.T.A. meeting at Wilson School, a couple of really red-blooded mothers stood up and volunteered their husbands to take large groups of trick-or-treaters around the neighborhood.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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