What is "red-rimmed"

Usage examples of "red-rimmed".

His eyes were red-rimmed, the lines that bracketed his prominent canines were deeply etched into his weathered skin.

The surrounding trails had been overgrown and rains had taken the charcoal from the firepits, leaving only red-rimmed black stains in the earth.

His face was haggard and his eyes red-rimmed but he stood with his back straight and his fists clenched by his sides.

Through the ferns the border runs on one leg. This side and that side: white, red-rimmed mushrooms battle black, white, and red ants.

Leaving the burglar chain engaged, she peered out to see Harley Fist, swaying on his feet, his eyes red-rimmed, his face sullen and stubbled, a livid bruise discoloring one side of his chin and jaw.

The ginger-haired girl at the checkout counter looked familiar, and her eyes were red-rimmed from crying.

Their eyes were red-rimmed with exhaustion, their expensive suits needed pressing, and they had in their combined shopping baskets at least a hundred pounds' worth of assorted chocolate bars.

Nessie lumbers on, oblivious, her red-rimmed eyes indicating to anyone knowledgeable about these creatures that she's high as a kite on a double dose of reptile tranquilizer.

She watched the horse dance nervously, its eyes red-rimmed and suspicious.

His thick yellow hair was uncombed, his jaw beard stubbled, his eyes red-rimmed.

His thick yellow hair was uncombed, and his jaw beard stubbled, his eyes red-rimmed.

A man of medium height, with no single compelling feature other than his eyes, which were penetrating and mournfully red-rimmed, Mzee Tharaka today shunned the Western-style business suits of his retainers in favor of a Sambusai toga, a gorget of monkey's teeth, a red silk cloak featuring a pattern of alternating fleur-de-lis and (of all things) golden appliqué pineapples, and a set of silver anklets, from which depended tiny effigies of the country's vanishing wildlife, an ornamental touch that reminded Joshua of the grade-school name bracelet to which his sister, Anna Monegal, had once added charms depicting a puppy, a broken heart, a pair of saddle oxfords, a football, and so on.

Carpenter stirred, opened a red-rimmed eye: Nicholls smiled down encouragingly.

Across the strange clearing, the night snake-people could see the red-rimmed eyes of their former brothers, waiting sullenly for that first ray of sunshine which would release their angry powers and entrap the night-men to their mercy.

Your eyes are red-rimmed and there are purple patches beneath them.