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How to use redden in a sentence

13 example sentences · verb

Redden means to become red or redder. Example: “The cold weather caused some cheek reddening and some nose running.”

More sentences with redden

  • The cold weather caused some cheek reddening and some nose running.From the entry reddening
  • There was some noticeable reddening in her cheeks when she had been drinking.From the entry reddening
  • The reddened western sky was taken as an omen of changing weather.From the entry reddened
  • Horribly, as he was dying, his eyes reddened.From the entry horribly
  • Her reddened face told me she was angry.From the entry reddened
  • Francine leans down and her body tenses, shoulders reddening as she makes a sharp, punchy gesture.2021, Chandler Baker, The Husbands. From the entry punchy
  • Out in the street, under the reddening afternoon sun, a spectacle of ineluctable commerce greeted her.1993, Will Self, My Idea of Fun. From the entry ineluctable
  • She saw him again that eventide, but then he was a reddened lich.1983, Poul Anderson, Time Patrolman (Sci-Fi), →ISBN. From the entry lich
  • The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin.1900, Charles Morris, Cyclopedia of practical information, page 487. From the entry mustard-plaster
  • The lips were severely contused, reddened.1965, John Fowles, The Magus. From the entry contuse
  • Small reddened but said stubbornly, “The cow likes my singing.” ¶ Cows are different from humans; perhaps the hairiness of their ears strains sound.1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC. From the entry hairiness
  • He glanced to his left, and after their eyes met he was slow in turning away, but he did, and reddened so much it looked like apoplexy.2017, Mark Helprin, “Élodi Alone”, in Paris in the Present Tense, New York, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, →ISBN, part III (Loyal à Mort)…. From the entry unredden
  • Hesterno, Licini, die otiosi multum lusimus in meis tabellis, ut conuenerat esse delicatos: scribens uersiculos uterque nostrum ludebat numero modo hoc modo illoc, reddens mutua per iocum atque uinum.2005, Gaius Valerius Catullus, translated by Peter Green, The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition, Berkeley, Calif.: University of…. From the entry squiblet

Meaning of redden

  1. verb To become red or redder.
  2. verb To make red or redder.

Full definition of redden

Questions about redden in a sentence

How do you use redden in a sentence?
Redden is used as a verb. For example: “The cold weather caused some cheek reddening and some nose running.”
What is a short sentence with redden?
“The lips were severely contused, reddened.”
What does redden mean?
Redden means to become red or redder.

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