How to Use redheaded in a Sentence
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So the Olsen twins were, in fact, fired and replaced with two redheaded kids.
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 25 Apr. 2023
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Next to John, a redheaded woman was eating grapes two at a time.
—Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
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Fireflies danced around us in the night, and chunky redheaded agama lizards scuttled along the walls.
—Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026
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One of her superfans is this redheaded girl who is even styling her hair just like Wednesday’s.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
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Those little redheaded boys became a symbol of both hope and despair.
—Rabbi Sharon Litwin, Sun Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2025
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Their waitress was a perky redheaded teenager with a British accent.
—Marsha Porter, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
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In many areas, the anole has disappeared, and the redheaded agama are now basking in the sun.
—Denise Hruby, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2025
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But many redheaded kids are subject to bullying on any (and sometimes every) day of the year.
—Jessica Matlin, Allure, 15 Feb. 2018
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At some point over the past decade or so, the phone call became the redheaded stepchild of communication.
—Katherine Bindley, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2020
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Toward the end of the story, the redheaded woman tells the narrator not to do something.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
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The real consciousness-raising kicks in when the men get a surprise visit from a redheaded stranger.
—Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 2 July 2018
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Others were upset that Disney did not cast a redheaded actress.
—Rocky Baier, azcentral, 4 July 2019
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Hundreds of chatty gulls and terns crowded on the rocks, a few redheaded turkey vultures standing among them.
—Maggie Shipstead Anthony Cotsifas, New York Times, 10 May 2023
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As with the second movie, the redheaded star will once again be played by Ella Ballentine.
—Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 10 Aug. 2018
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The film begins with a mother innocently buying her son a redheaded doll.
—Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2023
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My strongest guess is that as a big fan of Annie, I was drawn to this other redheaded orphan of the same name.
—Jenny J. Hart, Country Living, 6 Dec. 2016
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The redheaded center writes with admirable candor about his failings as a player and the betrayals of his body.
—John Swansburg, New York Times, 1 June 2016
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His first kiss with Nancy, then a redheaded teenager, in 1971.
—Geoff Edgers, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
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But in more recent years, the boyish, redheaded prince has become one of the most beloved members of the royal family.
—Jenny Gross, WSJ, 19 May 2018
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The actress even teased the redheaded man about his resemblance to Ed Sheeran.
—Lydia Price, Peoplemag, 30 Sep. 2022
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Getting a burger off the Mickie D’s dollar menu or a cheap square burger from the redheaded girl are days of the past.
—Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 1 Apr. 2024
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One person tweeted that the casting was not in keeping with the original version of a white, redheaded mermaid.
—Lisa Respers France, CNN, 9 July 2019
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Next up is the chief stew, a stunningly attractive redheaded woman with a face frozen somewhere between fury and disdain.
—Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
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Texas redheaded centipede The venomous Texas redheaded centipede can grow up to a half-foot in length — and its bite can be very painful.
—Brandi D. Addison, Austin American-Statesman, 6 June 2024
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Echidna, mother of monsters, here depicted as a greenish, redheaded snake woman, hides from the Olympians in a cave.
—Seamus Sullivan september 29, Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
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In the comics, the event introduced a redheaded female superhero named Jackpot.
—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
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Two small, redheaded Israeli boys, with picture-perfect smiles and hair so fiery that people dressed in orange to remind the world they had not been seen in over a year.
—Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2025
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The Ginger Singers, a redheaded children's choir, come out to accompany him.
—Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Dec. 2025
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The song, Parton has said, came from her observation of a redheaded bank teller with a crush on Parton’s then-new husband.
—Marie-Rose Sheinerman, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
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In Brown’s painting there’s a hint of a pink bed and a redheaded woman lying on it, gazing toward us — all captured in a large circle that seems to be a mirror.
—Roberta Smith, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
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