scarlet
Example Sentences
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To fight these “little scarlet cells,” Grandfather seeks inspiration in the “little gray cells” of Hercule Poirot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Her parents took her to Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, but doctors initially thought she had scarlet fever or Strep A, and sent her home, according to her parents.
From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026
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
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 crowding, poor nutrition, and lack of hygiene made disease rampant; from typhus to scarlet fever, from malnutrition to psychosis, illness of some kind struck nearly every family.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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