How to Use violet in a Sentence

violet

noun

• 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
• Some may even know that the state bird is a robin, or that the state flower is a violet.
  — Cailey Gleeson, Journal Sentinel, 6 Dec. 2024
• 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
• The wine displays deep notes of black fruit, graphite, and violets.
  — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
• In the middle, notes of lavender, clary sage, and violet leaf add a green and earthy touch.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• The colors of the second bow are reversed – the reds are on the inside of the arc while the violets are on the outside.
  — Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 9 July 2017
• 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
• Equal amounts of red and blue look the same, for example, as a straight-out violet.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 4 July 2019
• 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
• Limniona is a dark red—nearly oxblood—that shines with hints of violet like an oil slick.
  — Marissa A. Ross, Bon Appétit, 28 Aug. 2019
• Keep African violets about a foot away from a bright window.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 18 Apr. 2023
• These paintings pop with bright shades of pink, violet and red.
  — Sadé Carpenter, RedEye Chicago, 15 Dec. 2017
• The best light color for plants is a mix between violet and blue light.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 8 Aug. 2022
• In the books, the Targaryens are these white, white people with silver hair and violet eyes.
  — Ella Ceron, Teen Vogue, 12 July 2017
• Crete is famous for these: the hills at dusk are all blues, violets and blacks; the sky a hundred shades of pink and orange where the sun hits the Aegean.
  — William Leigh, theweek, 10 Dec. 2024
• Ambassador is of the same ilk, but with blooms that are of a deep violet-purple.
  — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2021
• The two dark violet-blue gemstones weighed a total of 33 pounds.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2020
• 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
• As sunlight passes through the atmosphere, shorter wavelengths, such as blue and violet, scatter in all directions.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025