| It must have taken innumerable hogsheads of his thin vintage to empurple his face in this manner. |
| It seems obvious now, but Updike was one of the first to show that you don't have to write down about sports or empurple them, either. |
| But the moments vent by, and still no hideous stain rose to empurple the green translucent plain of liquid light. |
| Magnificent weather, one of those sun risings that empurple landscapes, left the river all its limpid serenity. |
| The word is so loaded with baleful connotations that it tends to empurple any surrounding prose. |
