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Sentence Examples It's a soft beauty as it casts a soft pink to violet of majestic artwork across the sky. He may have to make a self-transformation from a tall poppy into a shrinking violet. The main colour of the petals is violet, with distal parts being pale violet or white, and with dark violet ribs forming nectar guides. People know that I am not a shrinking violet and there will have to be major and widespread changes. In spite of their overwhelming vote for the violet on Arbor Day in 1897, their favorite flower wasn't officially adopted. So it doesn't pay to be a shrinking violet when faced with appalling service. The colors she chooses lean more heavily to violet, light pink, green, black, silver and gold. You will probably have noticed that Martin is scarcely a shrinking violet, nor a slack-jawed dullard. Normally, you wouldn't expect your local councillor to be a shrinking violet. The bird's-foot violet is a small perennial plant that flowers in the spring and again in the fall. New and practical staining techniques on frozen tissues, such as modified trichrome and crystal violet stains, are welcome additions. In the more familiar blue variety, stones exhibit blue, violet and reddish orange but in fancy colors the trichroism is as follows. I frowned and pushed back my wet black and violet hair, wondering when we would next get time to go shopping so that I could pick up some dye. Leigh on the other hand, was a tall and slender figured girl, with an olive complexion and dark violet tresses longer than her back. Five large hippo-like creatures were grazing on tall, violet flowers growing out from the branches of nearby trees. The warm sun bathed her soft milky skin as she opened her violet eyes, and tiredly looked around the room. My hand went automatically to my own neck, my soft fingers tracing the violet spirals adorning my pale back. From the darkest shade of blue, to its lightest, it turned green, sometimes, even violet, and, very rarely, into honey, black or even grey. The remnants of day were displayed across the sky in spectacular shades of gold and rust, crimson and violet. Good quality glass skins are toughened for impact resistance and treated to filter out ultra violet and infra red rays. Show More Sentences One of them, dressed in a violet pyjama and kurta, walked elegantly on the stage and greeted the students, who were touched by his appearance. Among them are Dutchman's breeches, spring-beauty, and various species of toothwort, trillium, and violet. The sky was a pale orange colour now, orange tinged with red and thin lines of violet accentuated by an even darker orange. When I was four years old and I was living in Demon Central with my parents, I met a girl my age with golden hair and dazzling violet eyes. Figure 1 is in violet barege, of which the stripes are a shade darker than the material. Her pale silvery hair and violet eyes were pretty, but other than that, she was boring. Christopher Hitchens, never a shrinking violet, lets his old comrades, the loony left, have it with both barrels in today's Washington Post. He left behind the violet shirt of Fiorentina for the challenge of winning the scudetto. A lotion which glows under ultra violet light is also used to train staff in proper handwashing techniques. Purple is a noble color in its deepest values, yet it can be flowery and refreshing in pale violet colorings. Mally's violet eyes widened and she opened her mouth, trying to speak, but no words came out. The violet flowers of butterworts nod manically at the roadside, seeming too delicate for this windswept terrain. The first dye is crystal violet, which is fixed or mordanted in Gram positive bacteria by iodine. Herbaceous, winter fruit aromas, complex violet and ripe berry fruits with hints of spice and dried orange peel. She was a blond with a sparkling pair of rare violet eyes and pouty red lips. The sleeves on her violet tee shirt were scrunched up past her elbows as she cooked and her hair was tied back in a ponytail. A single candle and a carefully assembled bundle of flowers and reeds, held together by a violet snow globe, made up the centerpiece. Her striking sapphire eyes looked violet, framed by her straight bangs and perfectly arched eyebrows. Besides the regular reddish maroon colour, there are cream pastes to leave pink, blue, violet, magenta designs on the skin. In the presence of acid phosphatase, the test paper develops violet stains on the white test paper. Show More Sentences She was, she says, a shrinking violet for her first year at Glasgow University. She wore a lavender linen robe with a wide violet sash wrapped around her midsection. The series of blasts of violet light slammed into the small cutter, forming a corona that surrounded the ship like a bubble. This was no shrinking violet who wrote his poetry from the lonely vantage of an ivory tower. The loud music pounded against my eardrums and reverberated through my body, while the strobe and laser lights dazzled my violet eyes. All of the colors swirled together, scarlet, crimson, vermilion, gold, violet, and rose converging on a darkened figure in the center. Sapphire releases violet cosmic rays, which are cooling and tranquilizing. You could have been given spider webs and violet fabric to wrap your chancre or sip tea made from deer horns but you were most likely to be dosed up with toxic heavy metals. That said, the softly spreading ajuga, native violet, periwinkle and members of the plectranthus family offer a variety of leaf colours and shapes and flower periodically. In the same case are several amethysts of an amazingly rich violet color. O'Neill identified dahlia as a blue violet developed from aniline red, while Schultz identified it variously as methyl violet and a mixture of magenta and methyl violet. They breathe a refreshing complexity of black currant, blueberry, black cherry and kirsch, intermingled with violet, cocoa, coffee, pepper, licorice, and warm spices. Watch your use of pink, yellow, peach, rust, purple, violet or gold. Erythronium dens-canis is the true dog's tooth violet, the name comes from the shape of the corm, and has rose coloured flowers on 10 cm stems and purple marked leaves. Do you think Chris Christie, no shrinking violet, is going to let Geraldo cruise to the nomination? No shrinking violet, Gallagher likes the stage and will appear in a production of Love Letters with Sally Struthers this spring. The sun is so fierce that objects seem to be silhouetted, not only in black or white, but in blue, red, brown, violet. A rich diversity of plants thrive in the wet conditions at Greena Moor including bog pimpernel, marsh violet, saw-wort and abundant meadow thistle and devil's-bit scabious. He was splendidly dressed in the royal scarlet and bluish violet. Place the moist test material on the test paper, which after a few seconds will show a clear, violet coloration in the presence of acid phosphase. Show More Sentences Scent bathwater with violet mineral salts and light a small candle. Each color has its own wavelength, from dark red, which has the longest wavelength, to violet, which has the shortest wavelength, expressed in metric units of length. Only the red allows for variation, and von der Ahe pushes it to shades ranging from a faint rusty tint to a deeply saturated red violet to a ruddy brown. Although they appear quite distinct to normal trichromats, the yellow, gray and violet colors in the columns of the grid above look the same to tritanopes. The bird's foot violet is a spring and autumn flowering perennial herb named for its finely dissected leaves which resemble the splayed toes of a bird. In Ontario, the bird's-foot violet is found only in the southwest where it grows in several small scattered populations in open black oak savanna habitat. Her racks hang with pretty jewelled objects in smoky lilac, pink topaz and biscuit, contrasted with intense hues of sunshine, azure, coral and violet. He is certainly no shrinking violet and will not suffer fools gladly. Cresyl violet has the advantage of being fluorescent while producing a useful staining pattern like methylene blue with white light. Every 4th section was then stained with cresyl violet to permit identification of the striatum and of the neurons within the striatum. Sections were stained with cresyl violet stain, and hippocampal area was measured. Cells were stained using a crystal violet method after fixation and air-drying. Bruel prescribes an epitheme for the heart, of bugloss, borage, water-lily, violet waters, sweet wine, balm leaves, nutmegs, cloves, etc. The least cornified, young cells stain violet or blue, more mature cells mauve and the most cornified, old and dying cells stain red. A candied violet or crystallized violet is a flower, usually of Viola odorata, preserved by a coating of egg white and crystallised sugar. The middle note features a warm, spicy mix of bourbon pepper, nutmeg, violet and galbanum resin. Their foodplants are crucifers such as cuckoo flower, Jackby-the-hedge, honesty and Dame's violet. Clinically, early skin and mucosal lesions may be difficult to recognise as they appear as faint, red-brown to violet macules. There was also abundant mercurochrome for cuts and scrapes, and gentian violet for impetigo. Common blue violet Viola sororia is the state flower of Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Illinois, and New Jersey. Show More Sentences Dry organic pigments include phthalo blues and greens, naphthols, carbazole violet, red lake C and other shades of red, yellow, and orange. Certainly no one who knows me would accuse me of being a shrinking violet. Roosevelt is no shrinking violet, but this is not a knife job or a backstabbing tale. The combination of sodium desoxycholate, crystal violet and elevated incubation temperature produce a very selective and specific medium. Most butterwort flowers are blue, violet or white, often suffused with a yellow, greenish or reddish tint. The visible spectrum spans from about 400 nanometers for violet to 700 nanometers for red. Go looking for hepatica, twinleaf, bloodroot, spring beauties, bittercress, violet cress and Virginia bluebells. The turtles can see many colors, but are most sensitive to light from violet to yellow or wavelengths of 400 to 600 nanometers. When the German adventurer sent seeds home, the African violet quickly became popular at the Royal Botanic Garden in Hamburg. Twain's sartorial splendor was topped off with a snappy violet bow tie. I've been told repeatedly that electricity above the waist is dangerous, but I've seen guys using violet wands on other guys' chests. Its flesh ranges from beige through white, red, pink, violet, yellow, orange, and purple. She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in. Flowers are in many flowered irregular corymbose cymes, white or violet coloured tinge. Fairhanded Spring unbosoms every grace, Throws out the snowdrop and the crocus first, The daisy, primrose, violet darkly blue. The slides were stained with crystal violet, safranin, and gram iodine, and the bacteria were observed under a composite light microscope. The flowers may be blue, violet or lilac in the wild species, occasionally blackish purple or yellowish. Fetal RPE were counterstained with crystal violet following fluorescence imaging. She was in pale violet peau de soie, and a hat so beguiling that Kit was only momentarily surprised to find himself with an erection. In the United States, this French violet syrup is used to make violet scones and marshmallows. Show More Sentences The French are also known for their violet syrup, most commonly made from an extract of violets. The primary reason for the carbazole violet increases is limited availability of two key raw materials, carbazole and chloranil. The tissues were stained with cresyl violet and were examined by light microscopy by an observer unfamiliar with the behavioral data. Dessert is violet macaron with apple, blackberries and tarragon. Or visit a specialist nursery and treat yourself to old favourites like dog violet, periwinkle, marsh marigold, lesser celandine, wood sorrel, clover and yellow flag. Carolyn mixed red brown with violet to give a purply brown on the underneath section of the hair with a glossy chocolate brown shade on the top to create dramatic shine. The menu will have an Australian theme with samplings of delicacies like Morton Bay bug, emu, crocodile, barramundi, lamingtons, pavlova, and homemade violet crumble. The Whoopi Goldberg Korbel Brut Rose bottle features a whimsical floral design in kelly green and violet, reflective of Goldberg's playful and free-spirited image. Perhaps because they're so easy to grow, spider plants have seldom shared the cachet of such other houseplants as the African violet, amaryllis or asparagus fern. Sunrise for Men' top notes include bergamot, lavender and myrtle, heart notes include violet leaf, sage and jasmine and base notes include amber, tonka beans and sandalwood. This is the time during which wildflower season begins with early violet cress, twinleaf, periwinkle, spring beauty, hepatica and small-flowered bittercress. The dye rendered pink colour to the cellulose walls, blue to the lignified cells, dark green to suberin, violet to the mucilage, blue to protein bodies etc. They fell a-twittering among themselves once more, and this time their intoxicating babble was of violet seas, tawny sands, and lizard-haunted walls. Our results show crystal violet to be highly surface active, with surface concentrations being five orders of magnitude greater than concentrations in the bulk solution. It is a world of seizing visual beauty, of shimmering whites and yellows that shift to glowing apricot, pink and violet with the sinking of the saturant sun. I want you to do a background check on a woman named Raven Anderson. Waist-length black hair, violet eyes, tall, striking. Late twenties, I'd say. Then they screened the biofilm phenotype using crystal violet stain. The Corolla is generally violet or red, sympetalous, often 2-lipped. The pluderhose is likewise built on a frame of chamois leather. The panes are of black velvet, decorated like the doublet and showing off the violet taffeta. Cresyl violet staining was used to demonstrate the nissl substance in the neurons and cell nuclei and was used, in this case, to identify neurons. Show More Sentences When the planned murder of Fred Hale goes awry and innocent cafe waitress Rose witnesses the chase, Pinkie sets out to seduce the shrinking violet to win her silence. This Cinderella is no shrinking violet but a tough little cookie in a gamine haircut who gives as good as she gets, socking her stepsisters when she can get away with it. He is mentally strong, he is no shrinking violet, that is for sure. Flower colours vary in the genus, ranging from violet, through various shades of blue, yellow, white, and cream, whilst some types are bicolored, often blue and yellow. In the spring it was full of cowslips and primroses, dame's violet and bistort, in summer, yarrow and ragwort and the hard purple heads of knapweed. But a clammy feeling soon dampened his enthusiasm, and he looked down to find his fine white suit streaked with violet where the ianthinas had discharged their ink. And following that was a tortuous passage through a weird region of clay dunes, blue and violet and heliotrope and lavender, all worn smooth by rain and wind. Examples from Classical Literature The same family contains the beautiful violet Ianthina, which also is not a British species, but a free-swimming oceanic snail. An aqueous or alcoholic solution of gentian violet or methyl violet is one of the best. At least it fitted with the Atla-Hi violet and the alamos blue being brighter than the other colors. The violet sprang from the blood of attis when Cybele changed him into a pine-tree. He was a sensitive plant, a violet by a mossy stone, and all that sort of thing. When only a streak of silver sky, with a shoal of little violet clouds, was left of the daylight the gyrfalcon gave up the chase. But on the feasts of Saints on Septuagesima and Advent, violet or black is not to be used. Dixon whirled and flung up his shielded left arm just in time to intercept the violet bolt of the other centaurian. It is not unmeet to use the violet on those days for which black is appointed. The augite is usually brown, but greenish, violet and colourless varieties may occur. The distinguishing feature of the decoration is the combination of violet from manganese with cobalt blue. She makes one of those sandwich men with a bell, on Sixth Avenue, look like a shrinking violet! It is very inflammable, burning with a violet flame resembling that of cyanogen, but somewhat whiter in colour. When obtained, the colour must be quickly washed by decantation, or it changes first to violet and then to purple. Leaving the warm glow of his camp-fire, he soared upward into the violet night. It is prettier than the violet, and larger and deeper colored than our houstonia. A purple or violet coloration proves the presence of salicylic acid, which in turn indicates the presence of saccharin. He has the quality of winsomeness, like the violet and the speedwell among the flowers. It gives with iodine and sulphuric acid a blue color and with iodine zinc chloride a violet and yields dextrose on hydrolysis. On the sloping banks below were splotches of violet and primrose, and, over all, hung the green shimmer of spring. Show More Sentences Rose madder mixed with violet lake, and a touch of aureolin and Italian pink might do it! In the dichroscope the ruby shows two images, one square of a violet red, the second square being a truer and a paler red. To this purpose a cold bath is prepared with only so much methyl violet or methylene blue, as to give the water a very faint tint. Ionone, a ketone first prepared by Tiemann, and having when diluted a pronounced violet odour. But the violet of her eyes was all but hidden by the dilation of her pupils. There is quite difference of style enough, between a violet and a harebell, for all reasonable purposes. William Jaquith went to a certain corner and brought out a teapoy of violet wood, which he set down at the old lady's elbow. The bluer shade of methyl violet, introduced in 1868, and still manufactured, is a benzylated derivative. They were not gray, like Tilly's, but a deep violet, with black eyelashes and eyebrows. Both are dark red, but while almandite tends toward a violet tone, pyrope shades toward yellow. The nuclei are greenish, the red blood corpuscles orange, the acidophil granulation copper red, the neutrophil violet. The salts of potash, with the exception of the borate and the phosphate, color the flame of a rich violet hue. It has been explained that by the methylation of rosaniline Hofmann obtained violet colouring-matters. As specially suitable we must mention fuchsin, methyl green, methyl violet, methylene blue. The violet coloring matter is obtained in a pure state on evaporating the amyl alcohol. At the far end of the quadrangle is the salon, the walls of which are covered with bougainvillea of a deep violet colour. High pieces of furniture, of black violet ebony inlaid with brass, supported upon their wide shelves a great number of books uniformly bound. The purpura, as mentioned in Pliny, was an amethyst or violet color. The modesty of the violet is nowhere when compared with the aspidistra! But Nelly herself was no shrinking violet, for all her baby face. Show More Sentences The fragrance's heart uncovers notes of watermint, clary sage absolute and violet leaves. Dainty sandals encased her feet, while a wimple of violet silk bordered in gold fringe, lay becomingly over her head and shoulders. Phylo now placed this by her side, full of fine spun yarn, and a distaff charged with violet coloured wool was laid upon the top of it. If the colour is blue or violet, boil with caustic soda lye. Slate is made of green and violet, and is thus also related to citrine. If salicylic acid is present the mixture will be purple or violet. A dogtooth violet, commonly called avalanche lily, is abundant. The household of Ithamar, in robes of violet, lined with ermine. A perfect dome of peacock-green sank into gold amid the blackening trees and the dark violet distances. White mists were hovering in the silent hollows and violet stars were shining bluely on the brooklands. The perfume of violet scent was almost unbearable, but he did not flinch. Does the Frankish lily wish to mingle her perfumes with the dark violet? The best stain for acetic acid preparations is, perhaps, gentian violet. The Gram-positive bacteria are violet and the Gram-negative are red. The letter was scrawled in violet ink on thick, handmade paper. There was certainly nothing of the shrinking violet about this girl! Never had he been more eager to play the part of the shrinking violet. It don't seem to fit our shrinking violet, as you can imagine. But beneath lay the soil that was to nurture the violet and the hepatica. Then the snowdrop sang a lullaby about the moss that loved the violet. Show More Sentences Each one of them selected from the new-comers on the platform, a black, gray, white, or violet cassock as his target. Though repeating the word 'violet' he had imaged the violet disc as blue. Landing on shelves on June 24, Gold Magic opens with fruity notes and has a powdery heart with violet and watermelon, on a warm and musky base. It is surrounded by a light blue aureole that gradually darkens, becoming turquoise, dark blue, violet, and finally coal black. It differs from t. sordidum in having no trace of violet color. Captain Jim contrived to give his sunflower compliment the delicacy of a violet, and Anne wore it proudly. An elegant polished walnut-shell served Thumbelina as a cradle, the blue petals of a violet were her mattress, and a rose-leaf her coverlid. A violet tint is given by the tinctures of turnsole and cochineal. The action of acid is equally characteristic for methyl violet. I wanted the violet silk, but there isn't time to make it over, so I must be contented with my old tarlatan. During the fashion show, Young stunned all in a blue violet printed dress. Close on its apparition, and blindingly violet by contrast, danced out the first lightning of the gathering storm, and the thunder burst like a rocket overhead. They were certainly beautifully moulded, and her skin was of a lovely pale olive, but the life of her face was in her great violet eyes and her wonderful mouth. Barnabus Shuttleworthy, we have the honor of forwarding this morning, to your address, a double box of Chateau-Margaux of the antelope brand, violet seal. The picture, in Carroll's trademark violet ink, shows Edith in a beach costume holding a bucket and spade and leaning against the wheel of a Victorian bathing machine. Once, when she came into a band of sunlight at a gap in the trees, she made so pretty a figure in her spring dress of violet and white that his eyes kindled as he gazed. The sky had grown violet and humorless by the time I finished telling the story to my wife and son, and the snow had become nacreous in the fading light. Find more words! 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Words that rhyme with violet What is the plural of violet? What is the adverb for violet? What is the adjective for violet? What is the noun for violet? Translations for violet Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words violently violent violences violence violators violator Violet violets violette violin violine violinist 6-letter Words Starting With v vi vio viol viole