ruby

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Recent Examples of ruby As two chickens look on, the ruby-red slipper-shoe of a woman (Rosa) steps out the door. Vulture, 6 Jan. 2023 Next to the ruby-red Majorelle bar, L’Asiatique restaurant, with its Ming Dynasty–style chairs and black lacquer tables, is a vision of Deco decadence. Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Dec. 2022 Chung says that the restaurant remained takeout-only throughout the pandemic and never reinstated dine-in service, despite its roomy ruby-red booths. Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2022 The ruby-red rectangle houses the wonderful fragrance, and is capped by a gold bar. Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022 See All Example Sentences for ruby
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruby
Adjective
  • The three seal finalists included a design pairing a North Atlantic right whale with a white chickadee; a crimson circular seal with six feathers and 351 dashes representing municipalities; and a sun-over-water transformation of the current star.
    Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • This colorful procession gave an impression of forward movement, and facing it, on the right side of the work, alone against a neutral backdrop, stood a fifth woman, young, extremely beautiful, wearing an exquisite pendant-necklace and a crimson dress.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The cloth, bearing an image of a naked man with long hair and a beard, as well as reddish-brown stains resembling wounds from crucifixion, quickly became popular.
    Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025
  • This celestial phenomenon occurs when Earth is positioned precisely between the moon and the sun, causing Earth’s shadow to fall upon the surface of the moon, often turning the moon’s surface a reddish hue, according to NASA.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 4 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
  • The landers will also be there during a total lunar eclipse, as seen from Earth, as the moon passes through our planet’s shadow and gains a bloodred glow on the night of March 13 and the early morning of March 14.
    Gayoung Lee, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2025
  • In Viñales, limestone knolls, or mogotes, emerge from the valley's bloodred earth like upturned loaves.
    Lydia Bell, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The viral TikTok dance sensation inspired by Wednesday star Jenny Ortega’s quirky moves that is set to the sanguineous 2011 Lady Gaga song has blown up so big that even Mother Monster couldn’t resist throwing her black veil into the ring.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Dec. 2022

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“Ruby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruby. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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