Sentence examples for for a purple patch from inspiring English sources

In Exeter, where Flybe is a hugely important local employer, they'll be hoping that this once-endangered airline is now in for a purple patch.

There's a bit of a purple patch at the moment".

Self-pity statements of this kind are undergoing something of a purple patch at the moment.

He was haunted by his creative block, though he always insisted he was one chorus away from a purple patch.

But while the art market enjoys a purple patch, for the majority of us, its workings remain a mystery.

American pharmaceuticals companies have a mixed history of gaining coverage in the UK press, but 2014 has been a purple patch for the sector.

They face a Philadelphia team for whom Jack McInerney has hit a purple patch in front of goal, and who will not feel daunted by a trip to their Eastern Conference rivals on current form.

The fact that he has now passed 1,000 runs in the Championship from 13 innings and has an average of 107.1 only increases the impression that this is a purple patch for a player still not guaranteed an England slot in any format.

Based on a gun-obsessed loner who embarks on a bloody murder spree in a quiet market town, Southcliffe is the second homegrown drama to debut on Channel 4 in as many weeks and heralds what some see as a purple patch for the broadcaster.

You'll be hard pressed to find anybody with a bad word to say about Tom Hooper's The King's Speech – what a purple patch for Colin Firth, although they say Geoffrey Rush is the star in this one – and people seem to be dazzled and disturbed by Darren Aronofksy's Black Swan.

"There are times, like when you have a tragedy like Gary Speed or, on a very different note, when you come away from Serbia with a scoreline like we did [Wales lost 6-1 in 2012], when you think: 'Oh my God, am I going to make it?'" Step by step, though, everything has come together in what Ford describes as a purple patch for Welsh football.