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How to use redhead in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Redhead means a person with red hair. Example: “I like redheads.”

Examples of redhead by meaning

nounA person with red hair.

  • I like redheads.2007, Matthew Weiner, “Red in the Face”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Roger Sterling

nounA kind of 800-watt lamp.

  • Blondes are 2000 watt lamps traditionally with yellow heads (or shells) used to light fairly large areas — also referred to as 2Ks — and redheads smaller 800 watt lamps traditionally with red shells to light faces.2012, Colin Hart, Television Program Making, page 63

More sentences with redhead

  • Brownheads or brunettes use a darker red than blondes and redheads.2020, Eleanore King, Glorify Yourself. From the entry brunette
  • She famously wrote a book where a redhead plays second fiddle to a magical Englishman.2014, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Scottish Independence”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 1, episode 17, John Oliver (actor)…. From the entry englishman
  • Warm hair would include, honey blonds, redheads, auburn or chestnut brunettes.2009, Karen Cecilia, chapter 7, in The Lipstick Classified, Lulu.com, page 123. From the entry honey blond
  • “These redheads, are they red all over?” ¶ “You mean, are they pubically red?”2008, Benjamin Taylor, The Book of Getting Even, page 92. From the entry pubically
  • No, she wasn't, she was a redhead and she had tortellini-like curls.2001, Adam Rapp, Nocturne: A Play, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry rhubarb
  • I am the siffed-up redhead being let out of the car on the corner.1968, Charles Bukowski, letter, 20 April, in On Writing, Canongate 2016, p. 103. From the entry syphed up
  • And it is beautiful for blondes or brunettes or blackettes—even redheads.1949 April 20, Pat White, “Teen Pan Alley: Play Tricks with Flowers – Yellow Tops Spring Colors”, in Evening Courier, sports final…. From the entry blackette
  • “She just did,” Barri replied sadly, “only she was wearing a disguise and looked like a tall, thin, beautiful redhead.”1991, Ellen Ashley, chapter 9, in Understudy (Center Stage; 3), New York, N.Y.: Fawcett Girls Only, →ISBN, pages 135–136. From the entry it's not over 'til the fat lady sings
  • Bluey, who of course was a redhead, started out surfing on his mom's ironing board when he was a grommet of six years of age.2009, Duke Boyd, Jeff Divine, Steve Pezman, Legends of Surfing: The Greatest Surfriders from Duke Kahanamoku to Kelly Slater, page 24. From the entry bluey
  • In the classical lexicon of blonde, brunette, and redhead, why has no distinction been made between women with brown and black hair?[1994 December 13, Charlie Stross, quoting Tim Mefford, “A simple query not cross-posted to kook groups.”, in alt.peeves (Usenet)…. From the entry noirette
  • I just wouldn't go anywhere near a redhead. ¶ Now don't get me wrong and start calling me a hairist or something like that.1991, Paul Jennings, “Ice Maiden”, in Unmentionable!: More Amazing Stories, New York, NY: Puffin Books, published 1995, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry hairist
  • The redhead who played a zombie in Troy's movie was sitting on him in reverse cowgirl, wearing nothing but pink Uggs because her feet were always cold.2014, John Fusco, Dog Beach. From the entry reverse cowgirl
  • Last night, Tate staged a nice running gag on racism by creating a world in which the majority had an irrational hatred of "gingers", meaning redheads.2005 July 22, Ian Bell, “Those who pay the PR rarely get to call a tune as perfect as this one”, in The Herald, Glasgow. From the entry gingerphobia
  • She was a tall redhead, with a shape that would make you jump for joy and a reputation as the best French girl in the place.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A…. From the entry french

Meaning of redhead

  1. noun A person with red hair.
  2. noun A North American duck (Aythya americana) highly esteemed as a game bird.
  3. noun A kind of milkweed (Asclepia curassavica), with red flowers, formerly used in medicine.

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Questions about redhead in a sentence

How do you use redhead in a sentence?
Redhead is used as a noun. For example: “I like redheads.”
What is a short sentence with redhead?
“I like redheads.”
What does redhead mean?
Redhead means a person with red hair.

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