scarlet
Example Sentences
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In the film, Huppert's countess character returns to life in a scarlet red funeral barge sailing into in the Seegrotte, an underground Viennese lake popular with tourists.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
Studies show that ʻiʻiwi, also known as the scarlet honeycreeper, face a mortality rate of about 90 percent if infected.
From Science Daily • Feb. 11, 2026
Her prose is exact and exquisite, as when describing Clare: “The soft white face, the bright hair, the disturbing scarlet mouth, the dreaming eyes, the caressing smile, the whole torturing loveliness.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
Peggy and Dorothy discovered the truth, only to learn that the little boy had since died of scarlet fever.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
The locomotive was a gleaming scarlet, with a forbidding front grille of inky black.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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