lilac

There was an apparent colour clash with Bayer Leverkusen's away kit, which is mint with a blue pattern, so Newcastle players put on their lilac third strip instead.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Once they’re in our grip, we hum on pleasant nervous energy all weekend, watching the sky turn lilac at dusk, eating Taiwanese takeout from around the corner, wondering when things will return to normal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

That’s no small attraction, though, for the multiplicity of hues—cerulean, lilac, coral, seafoam, sienna—are hypnotically rendered.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Infiniti oozed glamour in a lilac sleeveless Louis Vuitton dress with a fitted bodice and a cascade of ruffles tumbling from her hip to the floor, creating a long train.

From Barron's ● Mar. 15, 2026

We hurried back home to sit under the lilac bushes on the side of the house.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

At Chiswick, staff were watering drooping camellias and lilacs, shrubs that normally thrive in sun.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

But at the same time, lilacs are blooming and birds are flapping around in the trees.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2024

The arrival of a pesky family of rabbits or lilacs so heavily leaf-spotted by fungal disease that they defoliated in August just don’t feel like legitimate problems against such headlines.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2023

She described her childhood within the island's forested expanse, making dirt-pies and chasing garter snakes next to "fragrant purple lilacs, sour grapes in vines strangling the trunks of tart green apple trees".

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2023

She took an active interest, for example, in Nick’s flower garden, often eating the heads off the daffodils and hydrangeas, also off the lilacs and roses when those plants bloomed.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols