Examples of redden in a Sentence
First-degree burns redden the skin.
Her face reddened when her name was announced.
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His genitals would be heavy yet flaccid, fleshy skin sacs reddened with indignation, like the wattles of an angry turkey.
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Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Fine, white powdery substance on the upper leaf surfaces of the youngest leaves, shoots, buds and sepals, which also sometimes include twisted and distorted leaves and flowers and reddening of foliage.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
In the 20th century, semi-secretive, as a lady might admit to powdering her nose but not to reddening her cheeks.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
In the days afterward, when telescopes on the ground again saw the signature reddening of a kilonova, Levan quickly fired off an emergency request for an almost real-time JWST observation of the event.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
Saban said, clicking his teeth and looking away with reddening eyes.
—Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
And in the following days, astronomers saw the telltale reddening of a kilonova in the same spot as the gamma-ray burst.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
Every year, cooling breezes, migrating warblers and reddening sycamore trees signal the coming of autumn in San Diego.
—Faith Barton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
The site of contact will likely redden and swell like a bee sting.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Fine, white powdery substance on the upper leaf surfaces of the youngest leaves, shoots, buds and sepals, which also sometimes include twisted and distorted leaves and flowers and reddening of foliage.
—Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
In the 20th century, semi-secretive, as a lady might admit to powdering her nose but not to reddening her cheeks.
—Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
In the days afterward, when telescopes on the ground again saw the signature reddening of a kilonova, Levan quickly fired off an emergency request for an almost real-time JWST observation of the event.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
Saban said, clicking his teeth and looking away with reddening eyes.
—Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
And in the following days, astronomers saw the telltale reddening of a kilonova in the same spot as the gamma-ray burst.
—Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
Every year, cooling breezes, migrating warblers and reddening sycamore trees signal the coming of autumn in San Diego.
—Faith Barton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Nov. 2023
The site of contact will likely redden and swell like a bee sting.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 19 Sep. 2023
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redden
verb
red·den
ˈred-ᵊn 
reddened; reddening
ˈred-niŋ
-ᵊn-iŋ
: to make or become red
especially
: blush entry 1 sense 1
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