Violet in example sentence

That fabric covering you was woven from the masses of filaments that anchor certain seashells; as the ancients were wont to do, it was dyed with purple ink from the murex snail and shaded with violet tints that I extract from a marine slug, the Mediterranean sea hare.

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High-frequency light waves look violet, low-frequency light waves look red, and in-between frequencies look yellow, green, orange, and so on.

And when death comes, the dying still pick at their bedsheets, and their arms break out in blue and violet blooms on the insides, and their breaths get further and further apart, like they're falling asleep.

And I found this so moving, I thought, could I engineer that violet to smell just like Josephine?

One of my favourite Japanese films of recent times is "Battle Royale" and as anyone who has seen it will testify, Kinji Fukusaku (the director) was no shrinking violet when it came to blowing people up.

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