purple

White dwarfs containing large amounts of carbon often appear pink or purple.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

Elsewhere, Indiana-based Insignum AgTech is designing corn crops whose leaves turn purple in reaction to fungal diseases and pests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

As the 60th anniversary of the disaster approaches, Williams will be honoured with a purple plaque, external to commemorate her courage.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

The en suite bathroom is as flamboyant as they come, with stars, peacock feathers, and graphic prints painted across the ceiling, purple walls, and double vanity.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

And I’ll fill up the rest of the pages in my purple writing notebook with poems, whether they’re any good or not.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

And ‘Pose’ is very blue with some purples in there.

From Salon ● Jun. 9, 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

"And one of the most spectacular displays of autumn colour is the American ash where the leaves will turn a golden yellow before changing into purples and deep red," he added.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025

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

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

Death-dull from feet to hair and graveward shoved From royalty to that degraded state But purpler pomp!

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

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

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

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

Uncle Vernon’s face purpled once more, and Aunt Petunia started chewing her tongue again.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

Although her name has been bandied about as a potential Democratic gubernatorial candidate in purpling Georgia, Willis said she’s dreaming of a future away from politics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

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

The blue smoke from the house chimney hung in flat layers in the purpling ranch-cup.

From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck