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

Other examples include combinations like purple sweet potato ice cream, cheesecake with carrot compote, or chocolate bars loaded with salty potato chips.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The temperature in July easily reaches 90 degrees, and on a recent visit some Cabernet grapes were turning purple a couple of weeks early.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Then, with a flourish, Corrie shook open the cloth and turned it around to display a magnificent crown embroidered in red, purple, and gold.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

Watching and capturing the vivid purples, reds and greens of the Northern Lights in skies across the UK has become a bucket-list experience for many people in recent years.

From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2026

“Mike took it and made it incredibly subtle: flesh with the violets and the purples and the pearlescence,” Del Toro says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

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

The Street in Cairo glowed with soft yellows, pinks, and purples.

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

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

Poor Charley blushed purpler than ever, and holding down his red head—like his father's—he mumbled something about "not wishing to oppose no ladies whatsoever."

From Victor's Triumph Sequel to A Beautiful Fiend by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

He could only grow purpler and purpler, and splutter.

From A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

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

Full many a cow of purplest ray serene Is haply grazing where I may not see; Full many a donkey writes of her, I ween, But neither of these creatures would I be.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

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

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

Off in the distance gleamed San Francisco Bay; beyond it, looming out of the sea itself, was Mount Tamalpais, its summit aswirl with purpling, swiftly scudding clouds.

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