How to Use ruddy in a Sentence

ruddy

adjective

• She has a ruddy face.
• Then Dan Jakubek, ruddy and tall, rose from his seat and faced the young men.
  — Damon Tabor, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2016
• In Hanapepe, the bottom layer turns a ruddy color like the soil.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2020
• Blend over the tip of the nose, surrounding the nostrils, the tip of the chin, and any breakouts or areas of the cheeks that may be ruddy.
  — Sarah Wu, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2017
• The whiskey, which is bottled at 114 proof, is a deep ruddy brown color.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2023
• Hardin’s Creek Frankfort is a ruddy orangish-copper color, with grain, peanut, and oak on the nose.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
• The flesh will stay ruddy red-orange and dense, and the flavor is beyond compare.
  — Amanda Shapiro, Bon Appétit, 8 Aug. 2023
• In the river valley just to the north of the Salal Glacier Complex are some ruddy cones and hills that erupted over the past ~1 million years.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 2 May 2024
• Liquid and solids get whirled into a sweet, ruddy gravy.
  — Providence Cicero, The Seattle Times, 22 June 2017
• The man leaned his bulky body back in his seat and his ruddy face, surrounded by a white beard, took on the faraway look the woman knew well.
  — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 16 June 2020
• The chicken and fries arrived blanketed in a dark, ruddy sauce that was tangy and a little bit sweet.
  — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
• Who hasn't been drawn to a big plump strawberry or a ruddy round tomato or a crisp green leaf of lettuce?
  — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2017
• The color is a ruddy amber, and the nose has a slight bite with notes of apple, orange, and tobacco.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 Apr. 2023
• The 74-year-old Charles often looks ruddy and dashing in his Savile Row blue pinstripe suits.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• My morning began watching the light and shadows from the rising sun play against the ruddy Dome Plateau and in the snaking Colorado River.
  — Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2023
• Sit closer together and keep your ruddy hands in board.
  — Mark Eades, The Mercury News, 20 Mar. 2017
• The switch made the courts more durable and delivered cleaner, higher bounces, allowing the surfaces to play a lot more like a hard court than a ruddy ice rink.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 8 July 2023
• To most of us with untrained eyes, the exhibit will just look like one gloriously ruddy homage to the Golden Gate Bridge.
  — Rachel Swaby, WIRED, 5 June 2012
• Marsden is short and ruddy-faced; his chin and neck are lost to rotundity, and his wispy white hair is arranged in the style of an explosion.
  — David H. Freedman, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 1998
• Out ran a pair of small black-and-white sheepdogs, followed by a white-haired, ruddy-faced man who seemed happy to receive visitors.
  — David Coggins, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Feb. 2017
• Visitors set up their gear - nice inflatable couch - along the ruddy path, which ended with a row of orange cones about three-quarters of mile from the trail head.
  — Andrea Sachs, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• The planet will shine with a ruddy color and will be much brighter than any of its surrounding stars in the constellation Libra, the balance.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 20 June 2016
• And never forget Jimmy Buffett, nor the man at the head of the table enjoying himself, tapping his foot, his face ruddy from the day’s sun.
  — Hank Stuever, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2023
• That, and the watermelon radishes dressed in a tarragon vinaigrette, visually stunning against the ruddy palette of the duck and lentils.
  — AJC.com, 20 Nov. 2014
• For the next couple hours, Shannon, who has the ruddy cheeks and undentable cheer of a veteran instructor, takes us through a progression of bump runs on its flanks.
  — Gloria Liu, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2023
• The color is a ruddy orange-copper, almost like rusty water.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 16 July 2023
• Graham, who is sixty-seven, has a ruddy face, glasses, a sideways grin, and a glistening white beard.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Jacob gives him lentil stew (sometimes translated as pottage, mess, broth), and in exchange the clumsy, ruddy Esau gives up his firstborn rights.
  — Talia Lavin, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2017
• Athena Papadopoulos is showing ruddy sculptures at Shoot the Lobster that are made with fur (her father was a furrier) and that look like hanging meat.
  — Jason Farago and Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2017
• Its 300-tall twin walls (Ship Rock and Creation Rock, both of which contain dinosaur fossils) get their color from iron oxide, the same compound that gives blood and rust their ruddy appearances.
  — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 16 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024