purple

Maria O’Callaghan pointed to a web of purple lines on her screen, indicating the locations of undersea cables carrying data crucial for internet services and banking transfers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Oleksandrivna, 77, arrived wearing a purple dressing gown, walking with a crutch.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Rangers were physically and creatively on top, but there's always a feeling that one goal needed to become two to halt Celtic's assumed purple patch, a response that never came.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

“I’ve come to believe that inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle,” she wrote in her 2015 memoir.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Mine is empty, the purple remnants of huckleberry shake congealing on the silver spoon.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

"It's stunningly beautiful and the Portuguese man o'war even more so because they have these kind of purples and pinks as well."

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

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

Muhammad braves that one pretty well against the reds from Michigan, the yellows from Ohio, the purples from Minnesota, the oranges from Iowa, and the greens from Indiana.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

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 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

The natural tint of the lighter portions sank to an ashy gray; the pink of her cheeks grew purpler.

From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

These receptacles were filled and hidden with the largest, purplest, and most fragrant violets Marise had ever seen, and their amethyst tones, massed against the dark, rose-brown wood, produced an exquisite effect.

From Vision House by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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

His leg is purpled with vivid rashes and lesions.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 29, 2019

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

Clouds gathered, the sky purpled, and a breeze rose from the northwest.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022

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

By the time I found a small spring-fed pool nestled among some birch trees, I could see the sky purpling into dusk behind the trees.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss