Example Sentences

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"I just took her out of my jacket and she was just completely limp. She was pale and her lips were a kind of purply colour."

From BBC • May 2, 2025

At one large farm, rows of flowery, cactuslike dragonfruit plants droop over their wire props, heavy with juice that stains our fingers and lips a bright purply pink.

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2020

In some of the earliest news clips, her hair is blond; a few months later it is red; then, most recently, a purply black.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2012

Homer dug his wooden spoon in, plucked out a mound of the purply goop, and downed it.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 16, 2012

All of them have purply scales that shimmer like the feathers that circle the necks of the strutting pigeons.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott