purple

“He’s a guy who knows how to win a purple district,” Germana had told me, and he’s calibrated his public persona and strategy around that.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

In July 2025, NHS Wales re-categorised ambulance calls - purple for cardiac or respiratory arrest and red for major trauma and other emergencies where patients risk cardiac or respiratory arrest.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Startups are designing plants that glow or turn purple when disease or pests strike, empowering farmers to act quickly without widespread chemical use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The rail line known as the purple, or the D, was sometimes referred to as the Subway to the Sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

I spun the last of the straw just as the sky turned purple.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

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

I was pulled in by the coloring — the moody, nighttime blues and purples — but also the interplay between light and shadow.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025

At the end of the room was a small dais, and, on it, a cream-colored casket with several displays of flowers arranged about it: scarlets and yellows and whites and deep, bloody purples.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

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

He just stood there looking at Sam and getting purpler and purpler about the face.

From Short Cruises by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Purple and grey the horizon walls them round With purpler clouds.

From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice

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

"Sent me in a cab, as if I were his valet," said Randal, "to fetch his newest and purplest raiment from his beastly little flat."

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming

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

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

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

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

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

Other bushes were laden with purpling currants; butterflies abounded; and at every step grasshoppers whirred off, some crackling like the snappers kids placed against their bicycle tire spokes.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols