purple
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The jury was played a recording of a 999 call made by Gartshore in which she said her child had gone "purple" while she was asleep.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
He wasn’t actually going to spin blue into purple and gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
At Swamp Rabbit Cafe and Grocery, the shelves heave with white strawberries, purple asparagus and other produce from 300 local farms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026
"We're getting nice ''veraison' here, look at that," she says, showing me a bunch where some of the young green fruit are turning purple, tinged with grey.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
The sludgy, light purple shake still hovers at the rim.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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
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
“Cha-ching,” Criner said, her black leather jacket reflecting the neon blues, reds and purples flashing from the slots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
But I also see the pinks and greens and purples and yellows.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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
Though a cloister now of the dusk-winged bat, 'Twas rich enough once, and the brothers grew fat, 20 Looser in girdle and purpler in jowl, Singing good rest to the founder's lost soul.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
He could only grow purpler and purpler, and splutter.
From A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh
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
The skies are at their bluest, now; the woods and fields are at their greenest; flowers are blooming their yellowest, and purplest, and scarletest.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 by Various
The heather was at its purplest, the furze at its yellowest, the grasshoppers chirped loud enough for birds, the snakes hissed like little engines, and Elfride at first felt lively.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
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
The captain lay bloated, his face puffed and purpled, the sun baking and ruining his flesh.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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
The greening, or purpling, of Los Angeles also involves these elements, but mostly water.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022
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
Case, arms waving and face purpling, kept shouting.
From Time Magazine Archive
He took the pipe out of his mouth and pointed with the stem of it at a star in the purpling sky.
From "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" by Kate DiCamillo
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