sanguineous
Example Sentences
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Apples, as they say, must be not be compared to oranges, and certainly not blood oranges, which is perhaps the better analogy for this tart, tangy and juicily sanguineous offering.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023
I had that luxury because, like everyone else this year, I didn’t have to fly to Utah for the Sundance Film Festival but attended this impressively sanguineous edition at home.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
Although the movie will have a different script, approach, director, cast and special effects, Langella wants to maintain his conception of the role of the sanguineous count.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I answer, I don't know—any more than I know why sanguineous people are hot-tempered, and leuco-phlegmatic ones are more brooding in their wrath.
From Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General by Charles James Lever
The passenger, who was a plethoric, sanguineous man felt as if he were stifling.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various