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How to use livid in a sentence

16 example sentences · adjective

Livid means having a dark, bluish appearance. Example: “The house seemed unfamiliar in the dark stormy light; the red and purple glass of the front door made livid bruises on the linoleum; the green chenille curtain was like a veil of seaweed.”

Examples of livid by meaning

adjectiveHaving a dark, bluish appearance.

  • The house seemed unfamiliar in the dark stormy light; the red and purple glass of the front door made livid bruises on the linoleum; the green chenille curtain was like a veil of seaweed.1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, “Chapter VII”, in A House Is Built, section VI

adjectivePale, pallid.

  • I'm livid; a deathly pale light floods my face and I emanate a different smell.2014, Francesco Verso, Livid, Surry Hills, N.S.W.: Xoum Publishing, →ISBN

adjectiveSo angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious; liverish.

  • Livider and livider Serjianni grew as the Princess let him have it.1956, Tiffany Thayer, Tiffany Thayer's Mona Lisa; I. The Prince of Taranto: A Fiction in Three Volumes, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Dial...
  • Daddy was livid.”1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 65

More sentences with livid

  • As livid as I was, I realized this situation was not a hill to die on.2010, Deborah Smith Pegues, Ricky Temple, Why Smart People Make Dumb Choices, Harvest House Publishers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry hill to die on
  • Cohen, is livid: "You vant I should spit right in your face!?1992 January 17, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Sex and Drugs and Death and Writing”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry vant
  • The desperate Youth, livid, rispid, addressed the Maiden, clutching the rails of the garden fence.1968, “No Man, No Woman”, in Barbara Shelby, transl., The third bank of the river, and other stories, Alfred A. Knopf, translation of…. From the entry rispid
  • Bradly could see the livid mark of scars on the close-cropped sandy skull.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 21. From the entry close-cropped
  • Pearce, his face livid with the fierce pounding of the storm, stared at him uncomprehendedly a second.1908 January 24, “Pearce Battles Blizzard and Makes Hamilton-Toronto Run […]”, in The Toronto Daily Star, 16th year, Toronto, Ont., →ISSN…. From the entry uncomprehendedly
  • And they were not surprised when Tang Ya reeled into the mess, his face livid and drawn with pain.1956, Andre Norton, Plague Ship. From the entry black out
  • A woman near—her face livid in the stage-light and her eyes like cairngorms—miscaught a line and laughed aloud.1913, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine: Volume 92. From the entry miscatch
  • The strokes of steel rang out between the crashing thunderbolts, and the blade-struck sparks rivalled in fiercity the lightning’s livid glare.1902, Carolyn Wells, “The Pot of Painted Butter”, in Abeniki Caldwell: A Burlesque Historical Novel, New York, N.Y.: Robert Howard…. From the entry fiercity
  • Past the mountains, Ellay now lay looking scratchy and scarred, a hatchmarked cicatrix on the dusty earth, livid in the threatening light.2011, Diane Duane, chapter 13, in Stealing the Elf-King's Roses: The Author's Cut. From the entry cicatrix
  • Post-68 Paris weighed on the spirits like a nightmare, a frightwig succubus sucking nuggety gobbets from the brainpans of the nervous and livid.2010, Marco Maurizi, I Was a Teenage Critical Theorist, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry nuggety
  • Now in the dimpled streamful ghyll, and now aloft Where leaden high rigg roads leap to a livid sky, Sour and solitary, royally will I.1919, The Cambridge Magazine - Volume 9, page 372. From the entry streamful
  • "Hertha's very upset," Miss Masters was saying, her eyes fastened on the wall above Deborah's head where a livid yellow poster advertised Blood's superscrumptious meat patties and tomato sauce.1964, McHugh, Arona, 1924-1996, A banner with a strange device, a novel, Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, page 415. From the entry superscrumptious

Meaning of livid

  1. adjective Having a dark, bluish appearance.
  2. adjective Pale, pallid.
  3. adjective So angry that one turns pale; very angry; furious; liverish.

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Questions about livid in a sentence

How do you use livid in a sentence?
Livid is used as an adjective. For example: “The house seemed unfamiliar in the dark stormy light; the red and purple glass of the front door made livid bruises on the linoleum; the green chenille curtain was like a veil of seaweed.”
What is a short sentence with livid?
“Daddy was livid.””
What does livid mean?
Livid means having a dark, bluish appearance.

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