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Example sentences for "purple colour"

  • The flowers are small, of a red-purple colour (rarely white), in crowded whorls in the axils of the upper leaves.

  • The flowers have five sepals; and five unequal petals, usually of a bluish-purple colour, the lower one prolonged backward into a blunt spur.

  • The flowers are of a blue-purple colour, arranged in whorls of three or four in the axils of the leaves.

  • The glands also differ in size, and are of a bright pink or of a purple colour; their upper surfaces are convex, and the lower flat or even concave, so that they resemble miniature mushrooms in appearance.

  • Towards the margin they become longer and longer and more inclined [page 5] outwards, with their pedicels of a purple colour.

  • The discharge is then foul and blood-stained, and the prepuce becomes of a dusky red or purple colour, and may finally slough, exposing the glans.

  • Patches of coppery or purple colour appear on the skin, and bullæ containing blood-stained serum form on the surface.

  • There is swelling and tenderness along the line of the affected vein, and the skin over it is a dull-red or purple colour.

  • On neutralising and diluting the liquid, and cautiously adding a little clear solution of bleaching-powder, a blue or purple colour passing to brown is in a little time produced.

  • On now adding a drop of a liquid containing the smallest quantity of prussic acid, a grey-purple colour, or a distinct purple precipitate is produced.

  • The juice of the leaves stains paper a purple colour.

  • Pure bread is only slightly stained by this solution; bread containing alum strikes a lavender, lilac, or purple colour, according to the quantity of the adulterant present.

  • The hydrate is soluble in the acids and in alkaline lyes; with the first it forms salts which have a green or purple colour.

  • This reaction consists in the production of a purple colour caused by the formation of permanganate of calcium.

  • It appeared like a haze or fog of a purple colour, but less bright than the purple part of the rainbow; seemingly about twenty yards in breadth, and about twelve feet high from the ground.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purple colour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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