violet

Example Sentences

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It is the best event the site has seen since 2016, with swathes of the desert transformed and covered in golden and violet flora.

From BBC

These tiny particles scatter sunlight, filtering out the shorter blue and violet wavelengths and letting the longer red and orange tones shine through.

From BBC

Dior’s J’Adore Intense captures the scent of solar flowers — jasmine, ylang-ylang, rose, violet — right before they burst into fruit.

From Los Angeles Times

Each time, she seemed more substantial—her hair pulled back with “a single, white rose,” her perfume smelling of “freshly gathered violets.”

From Literature

I could see the wild mountain flowers peeking from the tin cans—rooster heads, violets, and daisies.

From Literature