blue-violet
Example Sentences
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Developed by the Lumière brothers, the miraculous process involved a glass plate dusted with potato-starch granules, microscopic in size, dyed red-orange, green and blue-violet.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Yet the color is rare in nature—especially not in “a blue-violet hue resembling the color of electrical sparks,” which is how a research team described a new species of tarantula in southern Thailand.
From National Geographic • Sep. 27, 2023
Finally, the blue-violet light makes it very difficult to distinguish between different colors, Bullough says; everything becomes a shade of blue or black.
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023
The colors range from blue-violet and magenta to pinks and whites and, of course, dark purples, some of which resemble the burgundy hues of red wine.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2022
Rishi ran his hands across the leaves of some bush with brilliant blue-violet flowers as they walked, releasing that green plant smell.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
