Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Warm as blood; lukewarm.
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Examples
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Long enough for him to finish drinking the blood-warm water and have it all dissipate in sweat.
The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010
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The two Arabs pulled the vessel out through blood-warm water.
The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010
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The rain had stopped, but the weather was still cloudy and—by the feel of my window glass—blood-warm.
Thin Air Rachel Caine 2007
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Jayve lay back in a puddle of blood-warm rain and seawater in the "borrowed" dinghy and watched the belly lights of another big train drift overhead, hulls silhouetted against the citylit salmon-colored clouds like a string of pearls.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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He slipped the ring, now blood-warm and damp with perspiration, over the knuckle of her middle finger.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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He slipped the ring, now blood-warm and damp with perspiration, over the knuckle of her middle finger.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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He slipped the ring, now blood-warm and damp with perspiration, over the knuckle of her middle finger.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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He said he could, though his first teetering steps felt as if he were trying to make his way, dazed and slack-limbed, across a river of blood-warm water.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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He said he could, though his first teetering steps felt as if he were trying to make his way, dazed and slack-limbed, across a river of blood-warm water.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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He said he could, though his first teetering steps felt as if he were trying to make his way, dazed and slack-limbed, across a river of blood-warm water.
Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004
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