Example sentences for: scarlet

How can you use “scarlet” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If you’re here in October, you may see the spectacular salmon run, when the waters turn scarlet with thousands of sockeye.

  • It's putting one over the plate that, when you clobber it, erupts in a shower of confetti that coalesces into a single scarlet flamingo that flies over to the box seats and bites George Steinbrenner on the ass.

  • In summertime, you can watch troops parading in the British Army’s famous scarlet uniforms, performing bayonet drills and firing their muskets.

  • The result is a bewilderingly beautiful phantasmagoria of fountains, lakes, rock gardens, trees, and flowers: the Sunken Garden, with symmetrical Trees of Life and rockery of gentian, saxifrage, and Lebanon candytuft; the Rose Garden, at its best in July, boasting 150 varieties of hybrid tea and floribunda roses; the Japanese Gardens, with scarlet azaleas, Himalayan blue poppies, weeping larch, and pond with a couple of cranes to bring you good luck; and the dreamy Italian Garden, cypresses singing a song of Tuscany around a cruciform basin filled with water lilies, where once was Mr. and Mrs. Butchart’s tennis court.

  • She's an adulterer and she should be walking around with a scarlet A." And she "seemed more interested in making money than contemplating the deep meaning of her actions."


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