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

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

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

The disappearance of one eye; under a large red swelling, combined with a patulous and rubescent nose, detracted to some extent from the dignity of his appearance.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 11, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

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

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