purple

Last year, an adult purple gallinule was spotted some 600 miles north at the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary in Humboldt County, state records show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026

Carlos Irving Quintana, a slim 14-year-old with purple hair, wins cheers of approval with his enactment of the iconic "Siuuu" leap of Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo when he scores a goal.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

She grew up right at the heart of the purple and gold empire that were her father’s Los Angeles Lakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

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

They were purple and sweet with seeds that got stuck in my teeth.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

And ‘Pose’ is very blue with some purples in there.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2026

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

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

The Street in Cairo glowed with soft yellows, pinks, and purples.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

Death-dull from feet to hair and graveward shoved From royalty to that degraded state But purpler pomp!

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

It was musty, cobwebbed, and encrusted with stalactic nitre, but the spirit of rare old vintages exhaled from its depths, and visionary clusters of purplest grapes dangled in every direction.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

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

His leg is purpled with vivid rashes and lesions.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2019

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

And he hated himself because even as she lay dying he saw how wide and ghastly her purpled lips drew back from her teeth.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

Off in the distance gleamed San Francisco Bay; beyond it, looming out of the sea itself, was Mount Tamalpais, its summit aswirl with purpling, swiftly scudding clouds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other bushes were laden with purpling currants; butterflies abounded; and at every step grasshoppers whirred off, some crackling like the snappers kids placed against their bicycle tire spokes.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols