beetroot-red

Example Sentences

• "If you don't jog, jogging is also, quite simply, impossible. When you do run for a couple of minutes - when needs really must - you find yourself beetroot-red in the face, slick with sweat and barely able to breathe."
• "I have missed the daily ferry, so check into a hotel full of beetroot-red Brits."
• "Sykes filled his New York life with like-minded people, who found it as funny and natural as he did that birthdays meant doing things like sitting on a rooftop 50 floors up, doing cocaine and drinking gin and then passing out at dawn, only to wake up later beetroot-red with sunburn."
• "Gardeners have selected a sport of this native, E amygdaloides 'Purpurea', and this is even more delectable with beetroot-red stems and dark purple foliage, but I have yet to grow it successfully without mildew getting to it first."
• "When McLennan and I climb out – our chests beetroot-red – we chat with another swimmer, 52-year-old Oliver Perritt. Perritt has been coming to the Highgate Men’s Pond pretty much every day for a decade."
• "Swollen beetroot-red bulbs half-heaved from the soil, tempting greedy fingers to cup and pluck them out of the earth."