Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rubicund
Adjective
  • Chester Arthur’s ruddy face is framed by lacy, drooping curtains.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
  • Jokes at their expense are easy and cheap, though each of these ruddy head wounds caps an individual story of insecurity and frail hope for more abundant days ahead.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 July 2025
Adjective
  • The bookshelf opens to reveal a glowing path.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The reviews for this twist on classic Chicken Pot Pie are absolutely glowing.
    Phoebe Evans, Southern Living, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Kevin Keegan, captain of England’s football team, ran it, wearing a shirt split down the middle with the black and white of Newcastle United and the red and white of Sunderland.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
  • White oak White oak is a large shade tree displays deep red to coppery-brown fall color.
    Chris McKeown, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • That enables TVs like the LG G5 to sit almost flush against the wall.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Consolidation is one recourse for Europe's cash-flush lenders to bulk up their scale and compete with Wall Street's historically more lucrative banking giants.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Herbert has a rosy outlook financially as well.
    Brett Knight, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Until recently, things were not looking so rosy.
    Alex González Ormerod, Time, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Forget the crowds of other Rocky Mountain destinations—Durango gives visitors a warm Colorado welcome, and then some.
    Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Fall and winter are ideal for testing the soil in flower and vegetable gardens, as well as warm-season turfgrass lawns.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • With Ryan O’Neal as the conniving fool who social-climbs and lies his way through war and peace, Kubrick matches perfectly paced, often-hilarious satire with a sanguine view of human selfishness and impermanence.
    Christina Newland, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
  • As usual, Goldfarb, who has run G-III for more than 50 years, is sanguine in that classic, Seventh Avenue way, that his business acumen would win out.
    Evan Clark, Footwear News, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There’s no florid wallpaper and no nostalgic oil paintings.
    Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 31 July 2025
  • Under the agreement, which provides a conceptual framework for the redevelopment, Goddard would retain Burger King’s original buildings, designed in a florid post-Modern style typical of the 1980s by prominent national architectural firm Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum, today know as HOK.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 18 July 2025
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“Rubicund.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rubicund. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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