purple

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

Inconsistent use of the brand’s iconic purple is reducing Crown Royal’s appeal, according to O’Keeffe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

If he doesn’t, markets won’t stop trying to guess what he’s thinking: they’ll just rely on other Fed officials’ commentaries, some random bit of data, the latest version of purple traffic cones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Her toes were painted a sparkly purple, matching the color on her nails.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

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

But don’t tell that to the intrepid folks who found places to see the pinks and purples in Southern California.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024

Jay looked up into the sky, now stained with faded purples and pinks and hot orange.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

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

Montague thought that the Major's face grew redder every day, and the purple veins in it purpler; or was it that the old gentleman's shirt bosom gleamed more brightly in the glare of the lights?

From The Metropolis by Upton Sinclair

The empurpled Alloway grew purpler at the sight of a coolness he did not share.

From The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson

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 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

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

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

In that race, Cox narrowly defeated three-term Rep. David Valadao, a Hanford Republican, and flipped the Central Valley’s purpling 22nd Congressional District from GOP control.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

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

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