Sentence examples for purplish-red from inspiring English sources

'Eroica' and 'Overture' have purplish-red winter foliage and deep-red spring flowers.

Nannyberry viburnums (V. lentago) are short trees with creamy white spring flowers, blue summer fruits and purplish-red fall leaves.

Carmine, red or purplish-red pigment obtained from cochineal, a red dyestuff extracted from the dried bodies of certain female scale insects native to tropical and subtropical America.

The purplish-red vinaigrette tasted O.K., but was not interesting enough to merit using it instead of, say, an excellent olive oil vinaigrette.

The blunt-leafed type or clasping milkweed (Asclepias amplexicaulis) has interesting wavy leaves, and the red milkweed (Asclepias rubra) has purplish-red or orange-red flowers.

The top price for a red diamond was hit in November 2007 with a 2.26-carat fancy purplish-red diamond ring at Christie's Geneva, which sold for the equivalent of $1.18 million a carat.

Adams provides a few examples, like "Godfather: Red as a ruby, bottomless vibrant purplish red, a big word, impressive but airy, the silk dragon in a Chinese parade".

Pore purplish red; tube yellow, bluing.

They are pink or purplish red lines during pregnancy.

The blend produces magenta (purplish red), not pale green.

Turns out, madder carmine is a purplish red.