purple

She grew up right at the heart of the purple and gold empire that were her father’s Los Angeles Lakers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

I still find glitter ground into our kitchen tiles from the Halloween when he made his daughter a purple witch costume.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"We're getting nice ''veraison' here, look at that," she says, showing me a bunch where some of the young green fruit are turning purple, tinged with grey.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 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

The sky turns bright with streaks of pink and purple.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

On Friday night, the lights dazzled the country, and the internet was awash with photos of bright pinks, purples and greens splashed across the night sky.

From BBC ● May 11, 2024

Some of the purples blushed faintly pink, others were tinted pale blue, but there was no other color.

From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine

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

The circles seemed purpler and deeper under the soft dark eyes.

From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by Charles King

My body was purpler than a huckleberry pie, and my linen was torn into pieces finer than a postage-stamp.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870 by Various

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

It achieved its purplest popularity between 1895 and 1900, was fading fast by 1914.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The heather was at its purplest, the furze at its yellowest, the grasshoppers chirped loud enough for birds, the snakes hissed like little engines, and Elfride at first felt lively.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy

It was musty, cobwebbed, and encrusted with stalactic nitre, but the spirit of rare old vintages exhaled from its depths, and visionary clusters of purplest grapes dangled in every direction.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy 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

The captain lay bloated, his face puffed and purpled, the sun baking and ruining his flesh.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

The greening, or purpling, of Los Angeles also involves these elements, but mostly water.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022

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

In the purpling east, cumulus clouds bumped heads in a huddle.

From Time Magazine Archive

I darted a look at the thin strip of sky visible overhead and saw it was purpling into twilight.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss