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

The rank, aqueous fodders grown on such soils are other causes, but these again are calculated to undermine the character of the nervous and sanguineous temperament and to superinduce the lymphatic.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.

Th�r�se, who was of a less sanguineous temperament than her sister, affected despair and unutterable humiliation, which permitted her to say before her own people a thousand disagreeable things with an air of artless frankness.

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield