rubescent

Example Sentences

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The words “He Was Special 2 Me” are emblazoned across the shirt in rubescent detail.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2017

It writhed down her arm, and its five rubescent flower heads thrust out toward the priestess—vibrating, quivering, held in leash only by the light touch of the handmaiden at its very end.

From The Moon Pool by Merritt, Abraham

His face looked so fierce and rubescent under his vast hat, that he put me in mind of a large coal, the lower half of which was in a state of combustion.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick

And I once a rubescent socialist … best parlor type … Lord!

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Amid a theatre of opalescent clouds reefed in the east, the sun diffused its glory, and shaped rubescent coral columns, edging its facade with azure and gold.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett