How to Use violet in a Sentence

violet

noun
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  • At five o’clock the light over the city was violet, and the air soft.
    — Mavis Gallant, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The tea is brewed in a violet clay pot that helps keep the leaves warm.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Hence, a rainbow is red along the top and violet on the inner side of the arc.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2021
  • When the machine was turned on, the glass wand glowed with bright violet light.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Nov. 2021
  • At one point, the sky started to vibrate, and the edges glowed violet and green.
    — New York Times, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The gem comes in a range of colors, such as pink, red, green, blue, violet and black.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
  • For the 2nd week in a row, violet tornadoes ripped across parts of the Deep South.
    — Todd Nelson, Star Tribune, 26 Mar. 2021
  • In the middle, notes of lavender, clary sage, and violet leaf add a green and earthy touch.
    — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • There is white, pink, brown, blue, violet, and gray sleep sounds.
    — Cathy Cassata, Health, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The wine is intensely floral on the nose, with notes of violet and a bit of rose petal.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • If roses are red and violets are blue, what is stuffed, brown, and blue?
    — Rebecca Norris, Country Living, 27 July 2023
  • This cologne has key notes of violet leaf, black leather and cedarwood.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The paler, red-violet Crayola color might tip you to the fact this wine is not like the others.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The top stripe is sky blue, the middle strip is a dark maroon shade, and the bottom stripe is violet.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The rich and woody scent has notes of cardamom, iris, violet and ambrox.
    — Wilson Chapman, Variety, 12 Sep. 2022
  • All of this swirling around a bar bathed in smoky blue-violet light – and clouds of cigar-smoke mystery – late, late into the night.
    — Mark Gauert, Sun Sentinel, 10 June 2022
  • Keep African violets about a foot away from a bright window.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The best light color for plants is a mix between violet and blue light.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Ambassador is of the same ilk, but with blooms that are of a deep violet-purple.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Light blue of California lilac and violet to blue of lupines with the gray sheer walls of the mountains in the background.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Oprah Winfrey graced the red carpet with a nod to The Color Purple in shades of violet.
    — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Our brains interpret the longer ones as red and the shorter ones as violet.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Van Gogh painted the city in violet, cobalt, gold, and chartreuse.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Purple shampoos range in shade, all the way from a light lilac to a rich violet color.
    — Sydney Poe, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2021
  • The gamay grapes have relatively thick skins, and the colour of a young gamay wine is medium dark with a hint of violet.
    — Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • On Arbor Day 1909, the final vote was taken, and the wood violet won.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 24 June 2024
  • Then, just as quickly, to flop onto our backs and make shapes in the clouds or wonder at the first stars speckling the violet sky.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 13 May 2022
  • Hints of green apple and violet round out the vibrant scent that carries well from day to evening.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Roses are red, violets are blue — drive down a county road, and there might be a Lovers Lane near you.
    — Eva Wen, Journal Sentinel, 14 Feb. 2024
  • In France, the flower violet was worn by the followers of Napoleon to show their allegiance to him when he was exiled.
    — Meena Azzollini, Parents, 30 July 2024

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