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Examples

  • ValleyCrest's poppy-red delivery vans became a familiar sight all over Southern California.

    Landscaper's Gardens Sprouted Around World Stephen Miller 2011

  • Sundays too — and she'd be there dainty... baking jelly cookies, wearing a faux vintage cotton print apron with poppy-red cherries and curly green vines.

    Smashed Meg Pokrass 2011

  • The poppy-red gown I had worn to the picnic was still carelessly heaped on a chair, my velvet slippers still shunted beneath.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • The poppy-red gown I had worn to the picnic was still carelessly heaped on a chair, my velvet slippers still shunted beneath.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • One model wore a poppy-red linen gauze blouse that had billowy sleeves with a flowy, below-the-knee silk georgette skirt.

    Designers Throw a Pajama Party 2010

  • And the fulsome poppy-red silk liming was stunningly fluorescent.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Glyn Davies 2007

  • And the fulsome poppy-red silk liming was stunningly fluorescent.

    Alun Pugh's New Suit Glyn Davies 2007

  • Therefore a poignant shadow, a keen accent, falls on these golden bristles, on these poppy-red fields, this flowing corn that never overflows its boundaries; but runs rippling to the edge.

    The Waves 2003

  • A horn soloed and a temple turned to a poppy-red ball of fire.

    December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002

  • Klara, poppy-red with rage, reappeared in the doorway.

    QUEEN’S RANSOM Fiona Buckley 2000

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