Later, the flocks of birds, blood-red globules and spiky strawberries.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/arts/music/wagner-parsifal-bayreuth-review.html

Partially covered with bright green lacy growth, the steep mountainside, layered rust-colored slatelike stone, is close enough to touch and turns blood-red in the late afternoon sun.

Source: https://theava.com/archives/231082

Uttered above a cradle of lullaby strings (and often nowadays from among a sea of blood-red poinsettias), the message excerpted from the Book of Isaiah, rings bitter this holiday season.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/15/307936/