How to Use purplish in a Sentence

purplish

adjective
  • On darker skin tones, the plaques may be dark red or purplish.
    — Mona Gohara, Good Housekeeping, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Her purplish hands remained clenched on her chest.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The lights went low, leaving the ring bathed in a purplish glow.
    — John Diedrich, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • All the photos have a purplish tinge to them that doesn’t look great.
    — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 10 Aug. 2018
  • The 5 to 7-lobed leaves emerge a purplish-brown and turn green.
    — Judy Nauseef, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 May 2026
  • Sunken reddish, dark brown, or purplish cankers form on the bark and ooze sap.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The top leaves take on a purplish-red color with cold weather.
    — Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The sky turned from purplish pink to orangey pink in seconds.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020
  • My brother picks up a heavy jar of purplish pickles, and sighs.
    — Longreads, 20 Apr. 2022
  • The tip should be a deep green or purplish color, closed and compact.
    — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2020
  • The tips should be a deep green or purplish color, closed and compact.
    — Darlene Zimmerman, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The skin may be warm with red or purplish areas of swelling that spread rapidly.
    — Caitlin Keating, PEOPLE.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The sky turned purplish green, the color of moldy bread, and jagged lightning flashed and froze.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The flowers are a deep purplish blue and much larger than most catmints.
    — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 11 Sep. 2022
  • Bright red blood is highly oxygenated, but blue or purplish blood is less so.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
  • My right armpit became even more inflamed and turned a purplish color.
    — Allyson Byers, SELF, 7 July 2020
  • The bright blue liquid was now purplish-green, like a nasty black eye, and the surface looked kind of oily.
    — Carla Lalli Music, Bon Appetit, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Moon Jellies are translucent with a purplish hue that are found up and down the coast.
    — Veronica Fernandez-Alvarado, Sacbee.com, 20 May 2026
  • The president wore a dark suit and a tie with a purplish hue to match the first lady’s hat.
    — Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The intact clam was quarter-sized, its ivory shell marbled with brown and purplish lines.
    — Ian James, AZCentral.com, 19 Apr. 2020
  • Her feet were purplish, their shape distorted with swelling, but that was nothing new.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 26 July 2021
  • Charlotte wore pretty purplish lipstick and some of her long hair draped over the right side of her face.
    — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2017
  • These plants produce an up-to-3-foot-tall flower stalk with white, pink or purplish blooms.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 May 2018
  • Fruity, citrusy and bright, this cocktail is a cheerful purplish treat.
    — Kari Sonde, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2020
  • This mounding plant has trailing wine-red stems and glossy, oval, purplish leaves with scalloped edges.
    — Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The hallmark red to purplish bumps usually appear on one side of the body.
    — Alisa Hrustic, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Oxygen can produce green or red, while nitrogen emits blue or purplish hues.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Even fewer are a weird, dusty reddish-purplish color — pinot grigio is one of those.
    — Gar Joseph, Philly.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Purples are bulkier with a more complete purplish-red wash over the head, back, and belly.
    — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 2 June 2017
  • For most of the year, this unusual cactus looks like dead sticks with a jumble of gray and purplish stems.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2024

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