purple

She has infused her suits and dresses with yellow, red, purple, or floral prints, keeping them structured yet light.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

Only five months later, two researchers working independently managed to identify the first word: πορφύραc, the Greek word for purple.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

An agent shined purple UV light on my hands.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

And, in Robinson, they have a bowler in the form of his life, a purple patch England will hope carries through the winter and to next summer's Ashes.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Grandpa chuckled and said, “That’s not a bad idea either. If you could find a purple grasshopper and hang a name on it—like ‘Jay Berry’s Hopper’—it might stick.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls

A palette of soft pinks, purples and blues lend warmth and dimension to Rana’s starkly beautiful home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

They wore neutrals, greens blues and purples, evoking the light, earth and sea, the AFP news agency reported.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025

Anthocyanins, found in berries, red cabbage and purple carrots, provide the deep reds, purples and blues we associate with these foods.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2025

Dancers wear pants and tops, adorned with fringe, in glowing purples and reds that bleed right into Christopher S. Chambers’s moody lighting.

From New York Times ● May 15, 2024

If there are no purples, reds are pretty good.

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate

The more psalm-like accompaniments outweigh the purpler prose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2021

He is swishing and spitting a Châteaneuf-du-Pape purpler than August berries.

From Slate ● May 5, 2012

Named for a mythical sunken city, Ys was a prouder, purpler record than Newsom's debut.

From Slate ● Mar. 1, 2010

Poor Charley blushed purpler than ever, and holding down his red head—like his father's—he mumbled something about "not wishing to oppose no ladies whatsoever."

From Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

And the old gentleman winked at James and Jamie, and became still purpler with laughter that was struggling to be heard.

From Pirate Gold by Frederic Jesup Stimson

We’re inviting readers to write their own over-the-top ode to the weather: Give us a paragraph about the recent heat wave, in your purplest prose.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013

Last fortnight Critic Olin Downes paid Moriz Rosenthal homage in a nostalgic vein with the purplest passage in the modern, if not the entire, history of the New York Times.

From Time Magazine Archive

It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Sent me in a cab, as if I were his valet," said Randal, "to fetch his newest and purplest raiment from his beastly little flat."

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming

The golden walls of this palace which I have built look down, enamoured of their reflection, into a lake of the choicest, purplest wine.

From The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

But he came and he was full purpled out.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2023

Last summer at my local nursery, I was greeted by a single bushy flower: the blooms velvety, thick, purpled and plush.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

On Sunday morning, a middle-aged female civil servant walked out of the Sule polling station and flashed her purpled little finger.

From Time ● Nov. 8, 2015

Tumblr, meanwhile, is awash in pretty pictures of purpled nebulas and vintage anatomy diagrams.

From Newsweek ● Feb. 11, 2015

Then it rose redly into the purpled sky, resembling a black eye.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Although her name has been bandied about as a potential Democratic gubernatorial candidate in purpling Georgia, Willis said she’s dreaming of a future away from politics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

Peering into the mirror, he hardly recognized himself, a 24-year-old man on crutches, stitches between his eyebrows, a gash above his ear, another on his forehead and a bruise purpling his cheek.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2015

In the film, they are wearing virginal white nightgowns and there is a gruesome close-up of their toenails, long and crusted on bloated purpling toes.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2010

He would stride back & forth across his room, purpling the air with oratory, punctuated by invocations of God and the flag, pounding his fist in his palm, swinging his arms in great sweeping gestures.

From Time Magazine Archive

I darted a look at the thin strip of sky visible overhead and saw it was purpling into twilight.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss