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Example sentences for: purple

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This painting inspired several paragraphs of purple prose from Martin Heidegger, when the old Nazi was holed up in his thatched cottage in the Black Forest after the war, thinking about "The Origin of the Work of Art."
They exported salt from the southern end of the island and lead from the mines of Sant Carles, and at the same time extracted a purple dye from shellfish which was used for imperial cloaks.
When Beau Brummell said, "If you noticed me, I wasn't well-dressed," he put an end to purple feathers and crimson velvet for men all over the Western world, and that was that, right down to all the Similar Sober Suits at summit meetings.
However, the cluster diagram highlights two groups of genes (purple stripes) whose ratios in the R-PCR dataset are inconsistent with their ratios in the direct labeling and IVT datasets.
Book -- Purple America , by Rick Moody;