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
• 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
• The bluff, ruddy Mr. Cameron is famously lucky, having pulled out last-minute victories in numerous other scrapes.
  — Steven Erlanger and Stephen Castle, New York Times, 21 June 2016
• Just a few spoonfuls of flavorful cocoa (or, in some versions, a couple of tidy squares of baking chocolate) turn this cake a pale, ruddy brown, the same color as the building blocks of brown stone building facades, thus its name.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024