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 The ruby-red rectangle houses the wonderful fragrance, and is capped by a gold bar. Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022 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 See All Example Sentences for ruby
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ruby
Adjective
  • The result, as seen onstage, is a light show that begins with the dress in a red tartan pattern, transitions into a half-blue motif, and becomes entirely covered in vivid crimson sequins.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 29 Apr. 2025
  • In the 1950s, a Sargent scholar wrote that the American beauty, who was married to a French banker, had an affair with her gynecologist, Samuel-Jean Pozzi, whom Sargent famously painted in a crimson cloak.
    Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Body of knowledge Human lips have a reddish color due to high concentrations tiny capillaries just below the skin.
    Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The total lunar eclipse that unveiled a reddish blood moon overnight to nearly half of Earth looked a bit different from the vantage of our celestial neighbor.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In between walking red carpets and attending charity events together, the pair welcomed two children, daughters Evangeline Ruth and Elijah.
    Ellie Beeck, Peoplemag, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Music’s biggest night returns to Los Angeles on Sunday, and along with it, one of Hollywood’s grandest red carpets.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2023
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

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“Ruby.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ruby. Accessed 10 May. 2025.

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