purple
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Carlos Irving Quintana, a slim 14-year-old with purple hair, wins cheers of approval with his enactment of the iconic "Siuuu" leap of Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo when he scores a goal.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
Typically printed in WSPU's colours of purple, white and green the cards combined traditional seasonal greetings with the movement's political message.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
“There’s a bunch of purple paintbrushes,” he said, pointing at flowers that are pretty self-explanatory, I should think.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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
Le Particulier Miami – This newly opened Mid-Beach gem embraces Art Deco whimsy with pastel pinks and purples, brass accents and flamingo-covered wallpaper.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2026
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
But I also see the pinks and greens and purples and yellows.
From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
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
Old Snortfrizzle seemed to be smelling a rat more and more—that is, if it is proper to liken Cupid to such an animal—and his nose seemed to get purpler and purpler.
From Pomona's Travels A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder Grange from her Former Handmaiden by Frank Richard Stockton
The sun had disappeared now; a red afterglow still lingered on the loftier peaks, but the abrupt scarps of the great mountains were assuming a purpler gloom.
From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Bertram Mitford
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
The golden walls of this palace which I have built look down, enamoured of their reflection, into a lake of the choicest, purplest wine.
From The Purple Cloud by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel
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
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
He would stride back & forth across his room, purpling the air with oratory, punctuated by invocations of God and the flag, pounding his fist in his palm, swinging his arms in great sweeping gestures.
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
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