Get to know Red better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like crimson or bloody. In Dutch this translates to rood.
Red in a sentence
Related words
Red meaning
- The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour.
- A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.
- One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
Synonyms of Red
Red vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Red
- The main meaning on this page is: The colour of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the colour which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive colour. | A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; (usually capitalized) a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. | One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
- Useful related words include: crimson, bloody, violent, chromatic.
- Possible Dutch translations are: rood.
- In the example corpus, red often appears in combinations such as: the red, and red, red cross.
Context around Red
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 8 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Red
- In this selection, "red" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 32.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, wearing, orange, glow, dwarf, lion and oak stand out and add context to how "red" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1994 another red dwarf magazine, a long red banner symbolizing, red cross, red crescent and red carpet. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "red" sits close to words such as park, body and currently, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with red
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The video spotlights Leslie's suit, which features a red bat symbol across her chest, red gauntlets, and a red cape interior. (22 words)
Symptoms include a painful red lump or bump on the skin, hot, red or swollen skin, sore, crusts, blistering and red or sore eyelids. (24 words)
G. The rapper wore a blue latex bodysuit, a red harness, red fishnet stockings, and red knee-high boots for a jaw-dropping look. (24 words)
If Boston Red Sox fans ever get to Fenway Park this year, glowing over the Green Monster is the red triangle of the neon red Citgo sign, owned in large part by a company whose chief executive is often referred to in the Russian media as Darth Vader. (48 words)
Pg. 45 In heraldry, the word gules is used for red. citation Shades and varieties main Red can vary in hue from orange-red to violet-red, and for each hue there is a wide variety of shades and tints, from very light pink to dark burgundy. (47 words)
Cross-culturally, when people have a word for red, they agree with other cultures on which wavelengths of light best fit the term "red" (the same wavelengths that primarily excite the cone cells which detect red, and the red/green channel to the brain). (44 words)
Example sentences (20)
Businesses across Central New York are invited to "Glow Red' by encouraging employees to wear red, and by lighting up red - using red lights (flood lights, Christmas lights, or red light bulbs) throughout the month of February.
For road uniforms, they wear a white jersey with red block numbering and red "Northwestern" stripes on the sleeves, gray pants with three thin non-contiguous red/blue/red stripes on the pant legs, and solid red socks.
He was sadly the only previous Red Ranger not to show up in the Red Ranger team-up "Forever Red," though his status as an active firefighter in shows that his red-hot heroic spirit was never extinguished.
Women and men throughout the country will be wearing red sweaters, red dresses, red ties or red dress pins to show their support of this movement to save women’s lives.
She had a hard time keeping a roommate, and having an obsession with the color red, soon decorated her entire room with red walls, bedding and even red trinkets on red shelves.
Cross-culturally, when people have a word for red, they agree with other cultures on which wavelengths of light best fit the term "red" (the same wavelengths that primarily excite the cone cells which detect red, and the red/green channel to the brain).
Pg. 45 In heraldry, the word gules is used for red. citation Shades and varieties main Red can vary in hue from orange-red to violet-red, and for each hue there is a wide variety of shades and tints, from very light pink to dark burgundy.
Smeg-Editorial, p. 2, Red Dwarf Smegazine, Volume 2 Issue 9, January 1994 Another Red Dwarf magazine was started called Red Dwarf: Better Than Life which is only available through the Red Dwarf Official Fan Club.
When a gluon is transferred between quarks, a color change occurs in both; for example, if a red quark emits a red–antigreen gluon, it becomes green, and if a green quark absorbs a red–antigreen gluon, it becomes red.
The Red Sugar Menstrual Ginger Milk Tea is made with Ceylon red tea, while the Red Sugar Menstrual Ginger Infusion is made with ginger water.
David Dindol, Red Lion Landlord (centre-left), with Arron Birch, Red Lion General Manager; Grant Cowans, Red Lion Assistant Manager; and Anna Brakel, Joule’s Development Director.
Symptoms include a painful red lump or bump on the skin, hot, red or swollen skin, sore, crusts, blistering and red or sore eyelids.
The batter was finally done and in tins, I popped the non-red, red velvet cake in the oven praying it would somehow magically come out red.
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators wearing red clothes surrounded the White House with a long red banner symbolizing President Biden's 'red line' regarding an Israeli invasion of Rafah.
If Boston Red Sox fans ever get to Fenway Park this year, glowing over the Green Monster is the red triangle of the neon red Citgo sign, owned in large part by a company whose chief executive is often referred to in the Russian media as Darth Vader.
The video spotlights Leslie's suit, which features a red bat symbol across her chest, red gauntlets, and a red cape interior.
G. The rapper wore a blue latex bodysuit, a red harness, red fishnet stockings, and red knee-high boots for a jaw-dropping look.
In the picture on the left, Rachel's decked out in a matching outfit: a red shirt under a red and white checkered vest and a red skirt with a bow on it.
The Red Oak Police Department reports the arrest of a Red Oak woman on Wednesday after she was accused of stealing merchandise from her employer in Red Oak.
However, trees in the fall aren’t just yellow and red they are brown, golden bronze, golden yellow, purple-red, light tan, crimson, and orange-red.
Phrases with red
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with red
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: