purple
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Beard: I was supposed to be wearing purple and she was going to wear green, and we were going to do the Isabella and Lizzie look at the end of “The Lizzie McGuire Movie.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The service's map of Germany was nearly completely coloured the dark purple that signifies "extreme heat warning".
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Zingman has refused to give up her search for answers, making more than two-dozen trips across the country in a wrapped pink and purple vehicle loudly telling the world about her child's case.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
Blue entered the lineup decades later, after 10 million consumers voted for it to replace the tan M&M, over purple or pink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
I was wearing purple pants, a purple shirt, and purple socks and sneakers.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
"It's stunningly beautiful and the Portuguese man o'war even more so because they have these kind of purples and pinks as well."
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
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
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
At the end of the room was a small dais, and, on it, a cream-colored casket with several displays of flowers arranged about it: scarlets and yellows and whites and deep, bloody purples.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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
It seemed to him that no lobster ever looked redder, no mayonnaise yellower, no pistache ice-cream greener and no huckleberry pie purpler.
From The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales by Connell, Richard
The sun had disappeared now; a red afterglow still lingered on the loftier peaks, but the abrupt scarps of the great mountains were assuming a purpler gloom.
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Mitford, Bertram
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 Fleming, Oliver
"Well, he's the purplest plum I ever saw," said Dawn.
From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Franklin, Miles
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
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
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
Case, arms waving and face purpling, kept shouting.
From Time Magazine Archive
The blue smoke from the house chimney hung in flat layers in the purpling ranch-cup.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
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