How to Use Red Delicious in a Sentence

Red Delicious

noun
  • Use bright green spider mums with Granny Smiths, or red mums with your Red Delicious.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Skip Fuji, Red Delicious, and Gala apples, which tend to break down when exposed to heat.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Avoid overly sweet apples or those that tend towards softness or mealiness, such as Red Delicious apples.
    — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Here, that’s a fruit platter with Florida oranges and Red Delicious apples.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2022
  • And, unlike with apples — a Honeycrisp and a Red Delicious are easy to line up side by side — medical services are hard to compare.
    — Darius Tahir, NPR, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Others, like the ubiquitous Red Delicious, don’t have enough balance of tartness and sugar to be terribly interesting.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • The silence of the orchard is only broken by the song of blue jays and the loud chatter of Millet’s two nephews, harvesting bucketloads of Red Delicious.
    — Shaun McKinnon, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • McAllister says that Red Delicious apples are relatively high in PPO and pears are moderate—lower than bananas, but still enough that pairing them can cause some loss.
    — Heather Riske, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The Red Delicious lands in second place, but the popularity of that mainstreamer, once the undisputed apple of America's eye, is in rapid descent and is on its way to being overshadowed by the Honeycrisp's rapid trajectory.
    — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • In the late 1970s, McIntosh ranked as the second-most popular apple in the US, behind only the Red Delicious, grown mostly in Washington, the top-producing state.
    — Mark Dent, HubSpot, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This ultra-nourishing formula brings lips back to life, not just with luscious apricot, avocado, jojoba, and pomegranate oils, but also with its dewy, lip-enhancing hues, from the succulent Red Delicious, a sheer watermelon shade, to the sexy Jam Session, a transparent Black Cherry hue.
    — Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • According to the trade publication Good Fruit Grower, stores with apples like the McIntosh, Red Delicious, and Gala representing a majority of their stock underperform compared to those stocking a majority of club apples like Jazz, Ambrosia, and SweeTango.
    — Mark Dent, HubSpot, 12 Sep. 2025

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