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Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

Her Really Red Velvet Cake is as red as a climbing rose in June (the bright magenta hue is achieved with a prodigious amount of red food coloring; Ms. Bonner will substitute beet juice on request).

"I was as red as a beet.

The whole theater was lit up, and I was as red as a tomato.

This limo was as red as a fire engine, and almost as long.

The reception was at the University Club, which was decorated with roses and peonies as red as a matador's cape.

The dusky sky had turned as red as a candy apple, and Mr. Phillips looked out from his hallway over Chelsea and the Hudson.

There they are on the chests of most of the women dancers, as red as an electricity bill reminder and as erotic as a trigonometry exam.

It bears a berry as red as any blood.

In the absence of "flat", "small" might refer to Enterobius (1 case), or hookworm when the colour was given as red, as after a blood meal (1 case).

The presence of Aβm2MRF dimers explains our observation that these cells were dark pink on complex medium, and were not entirely as red as when a non-tagged MRF protein was expressed (Fig. 2).

Nearby, a large family that included two little girls wearing ruffled pink dresses and a small boy in olive fatigues ate spicy shwarma and noodle-stuffed fried chicken washed down with cups of bissap, a sorrel drink as red as sangria, or a pungent non-alcoholic ginger beer.